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VOLUME VII
THE PARISH OF CHELSEA (PART III) | « a s- 7
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PUBLISHED FOR THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL, BY B. T. BATSFORD, LTD.,
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THE OLD CHURCH, CHELSEA, BEING
THE SEVENTH VOLUME OF THE
SURVEY OF LONDON. BY WALTER
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CONTENTS
GENERAL TITLE PAGE
SPECIAL TITLE PAGE
MEMBERS OF THE JOINT PUBLISHING COMMITTEE
MEMBERS OF THE LONDON SURVEY COMMITTEE -
DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES -
PREFACE
THE SURVEY OF CHELSEA OLD CHURCH:
I. Description of the Church -
II. The Church Fittings -
III. Monuments within the Church
IV. Monuments in the Churchyard
APPENDIX
List of Rectors, and Incumbents of the Old Church
INDEX TO NAMES -
PAGE
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iii
iv
v
ix
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62
84
87
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DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES
PLATE
1 . The Old Church from the South (page xvi)
2. Exterior from the South-East -
3. Exterior from the South -
4. The Tower from Church Street
5. Exterior of Lawrence Chapel
6. Window of Lawrence Chapel
7. Window of Lawrence Chapel
8. North Wall of Nave
9. Interior, looking East
10. Chancel
11. Lawrence Chapel, Interior
12. Window of Lawrence Chapel
13. Nave, looking West
14. Arch into More Chapel
15. Plan
1 6. North and East Elevations
17. Sotfth and West Elevations
1 8. Section
19. Capitals of Responds in More Chapel
20. Capital of Eastern Respond in More Chapel
21. Capital of Western Respond in More Chapel
22. Staircase, North of Tower
23. (a) Ashburnham Bell
(b) Communion Table
24. Communion Rails
25. Font
26. Font
27. Helm (Dacre) in More Chapel -
28. Inscription to Ringers in Tower
29. Pulpit
30. Pulpit
31. Weather Vane
32. Monuments on East and North Walls of Chancel
33. Wall Tablet to Lucy Smith and Anne Wilton
34. Monument to Thomas Hungerford
Drawn by Edmund L. Wratten.
Photograph by Francis R. Taylor.
Photograph by George Trotman.
Photograph by Francis R. Taylor.
Photograph.
Measured Drawing by W. Arthur
Webb.
Photograph by Francis R. Taylor.
Photograph.
Photograph by H. W. Fincham.
Photograph by Francis R. Taylor.
Photograph by Francis R. Taylor.
Photograph by W. Plomer Young.
Photograph by Francis R. Taylor.
Photograph by Edward Yates.
Measured Drawing by Francis R.
Taylor.
Measured Drawings by Francis R.
Taylor.
Measured Drawings by Francis R.
Taylor.
Measured Drawing by Francis R.
Taylor.
Photographs by (a) Edward Yates,
(b) W. Plomer Young, (c) W.
Plomer Young.
Photograph by A. H. Blake.
Photograph by Francis R. Taylor.
Photograph by Francis R. Taylor.
Photograph by Edward Yates.
Photograph by W. Plomer Young.
Photograph by Francis R. Taylor.
Photograph by Francis R. Taylor.
Measured Drawing by E. R.
Silver.
Photograph by Edward Yates.
Photograph by Edward Yates.
Photograph by Edward Yates.
Measured Drawing by (the late)
W. H. Ruddle.
Photograph by Edward Yates.
Photograph by Francis R. Taylor.
Photograph by Edward Yates.
Photograph by A. H. Blake.
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PI. A 1 I
;;. Monument to Thomas Hongerford
36. Monument to Maria Buckby
37. Monument to Maria Buckby
38. The Littleton Monument
39. Tomb of Edmund, Lord Bray -
40. Tomb of Edmund, Lord Bray -
41. Tomb of Richard Jervoise
42. Tomb of Richard Jervoise, from a drawing in the
Collection of Sir Edward Coates, Bt.
43. Tomb of Richard Jervoise
44. Tablets to Dr. Baldwin Hamey and Ralph Palmer
45. Tomb of Sir Thomas More
46. Tablet to Elizabeth Stewart
47. Tablet to Elizabeth Stewart
4S. Tablet to Sir John Lawrence -
49. Tablet to Sir John Lawrence -
50. Monument of Thomas Lawrence -
5 1 . Monument of Thomas Lawrence
52. Monument of Sara Colvile
'53. Monument of Sara Colvile
54. Tomb of Sir Robert Stanley
55. Busts of Sir Robert Stanley and Henrietta
56. Tomb of Sir Robert Stanley -
57. Brass from Tomb of Sir Arthur Gorges (with
Coat of Arms) -
58. Brass from Tomb of Sir Arthur Gorges
59. The Gorges Tomb, from a drawing in the Chelsea
Public Library -
60. Inscription from the Tomb of Arthur Gorges
61. Part of Monument to the Duchess of Northum-
berland - -
62. Inscription on Tomb of the Duchess of Northum-
berland - - -
63. The Duchess of Northumberland and her Daugh-
ters (Brass) -
of. The Northumberland Monument, from a draw-
ing in the Collection of Sir Edward Coates, Bt.
65. The Northumberland Tomb, from the Lansdowne
MSS. (Below is the Dacre Tomb.)
ured Drawing by Sydney A.
\c\vcombe.
Photograph by Arthur S. Long.
Measured Drawing by Sydney
Newcombe.
Measured Drawing by Liflford
Claydon.
Photograph by Edward Yates.
Measured Drawing by Miss E. G.
Cooke.
Photograph by H. W. Fincham.
Measured Drawing by A. E.
Bullock.
Photograph by Arthur S. Long.
Photograph by Edward Yates.
Photograph by H. W. Fincham.
Measured Drawing by W. Arthur
Webb.
Photograph by Edward Yates.
Measured Drawing by P. K.
Kipps.
Photograph by A. H. Blake.
Measured Drawing by J. H.
.White.
Photograph by Edward Yates. .
Measured Drawing by A. E.
Bullock.
Photograph by A. H. Blake.
Photographs by H. W. Fincham.
Measured Drawing by Cecil Smith.
Photograph by H. W. Fincham.
Photograph of a rubbing.
Photograph by London County
Council
Photograph by Edward Yates.
Photograph by Francis R. Taylor.
Photograph by H. W. Fincham.
Photograph by W: Plomer Young.
PLATE
66. The Monument of th'e Duchess of Northumber-
land
67. Tablet to Sir William Milman -
68. Tablet to Sir William Milman -
69. Tablet to Henry and Elizabeth Powell
70. Tablet to Henry and Elizabeth Powell
71. Tablet to James Buck
72. Iron Railing to the Cheyne Monument
73. Monument to Lady Jane Cheyne
74. Effigy of Lady Jane Cheyne -
75. Monument to Lady Jane Cheyne
76. Tablet to Richard Guilford
77. The Hamilton Tablet
78. The Hamilton Tablet
79. Monument to Lord and Lady Dacre
80. Detail of Central Arch in Dacre Tomb
81. Spandrils from the Dacre Tomb (a), (b)
82. Iron Railings to the Dacre Tomb
83. Drawing of the Dacre Tomb, in the Collection of
Sir Edward Coates, Bt.
84. Monument to Lord and Lady Dacre
85. Tablet to Hester Hill
86. Tablet to Hester Hill
87. Monuments to William Anderson and Philip Miller
88. Monument to Sir Hans Sloane
Measured Drawing by R. Pearsall.
Photograph by Arthur S. Long.
Measured Drawing by Ernest A.
Mann.
Photograph by H. W. Fincham.
Measured Drawing by E. C.
Nisbet.
Photograph by Francis R. Taylor.
Photograph by W. Plomer Young.
Photograph by Arthur S. Long.
Photograph by A. H. Blake.
Measured Drawing by Geoffrey
Clark and Eric R. Jarrett.
Measured Drawing by Miss E. G.
Cooke.
Photograph by George Trotman.
Measured Drawing by Sydney A.
Newcombe.
Photograph 'by Francis R. Taylor.
Photograph by A. H. Blake.
Photographs by W. Plomer Young.
Photograph by W. Plomer Young.
Measured Drawing by P. K.
Kipps.
Photograph by Arthur S. Long.
Measured Drawing by H. St. John
Harrison.
Photograph.
Photograph by Edward Yates.
ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT
1. Plan of the Original Gallery
2. Plan of the Tombs in the Churchyard -
PAGE
8
62
HERALDIC ILLUSTRATIONS
1. MORE
2. WAVER -
Argent, a cheveron engrailed between three
moor-cocks sable, crests and legs gules.
Argent, on a fess sable three scallops or impaled
with I & 4, ermine a cheveron sable, 2 & 3, on
a fess sable three crowns or.
XI
7-
8.
BATEMAN
111 NCI.RFORD
HI CKBY
BRAY
[ERVOISE
JKKVOIM
y. 1 1 \\IFY
10. PALMER
11. STF.WART
12. LAWRKN'CE
13. MERCHANT ADVENTURERS
14. COLVILE
15. STANLEY
1 6. GORGES (ancient)
„ (modern)
17. GUILDFORD-
18. MI I.MAN
19. POWELL
20. BfCK
21. CHEYNE
22. HAMILTON -
Three crescents each having a mulct (properly
star) bens ecu the horns.
Quarterly i & 4, sable, two bars argent, in chief
three plate^ (Heytesbury) ; 2 & 3, Party pale-
\\ise indented gules and vert, a cheveron or
(Hungerford).
Sable, a cheveron between three bucks' attires or.
Argent, a cheveron sable between three bird's
legs sable. .
Sable, a cheveron between three eaglets argent.
Sable, a cheveron between three eaglets argent
(Jervoise) impaling quarterly I & 4, sable,
within a border gules, a cheveron between three
spear-heads or, a molet for difference on the
cheveron ; 2 & 3, azure, three beacons burn-
ing or.
Gules, a fess or, between a roebuck or in chief,
and three molets of six points argent in
base.
Argent, three palmer's staves sable.
Or, a fess cheeky argent and azure within a
double tressure counterflowered gules (Stewart)
impaling sable, on a cross between four fleurs-
de-lis argent five pheons azure.
Argent, a ragged cross gules ; on a chief azure
three leopards' heads or.
Barry nebuly argent and azure, a chief quar-
terly gules and or, on the 1st & 4th two
roses gules barbed vert, on the 2nd & 3rd a
leopard or.
Azure, a lion argent, a label gules.
Argent, on a bend azure three stags' heads
caboshed or.
Lozengy or and azure, a cheveron gules.
Argent, a whirlpool azure.
Or, a saltire between four martlets sable.
Azure, three sinister gauntlets argent.
Quarterly i & 4, gules, a lion looking back or ;
2 & 3 argent, three boars' heads sable.
Party fesswise nebuly argent and sable, three
bucks' attires countercolourcd, on a quarter
azure a cup or.
Cheeky, or and azure, a fess gttk.r, frctty
argent.
Quarterly of four, I & 4, sable, a molet between
three cinquefoils ermine, 2 & 3, sable, a human
heart between three cinquefoils ermine (Hamil-
ton) impaling quarterly, I & 4, argent, a
lymphad sable, 2 & 3, or, a lion sable.
XII
23. SACKVILLE
24. DACRE
25. LOWFEILD
26. BOLNEY
27. CULLIFORD -
28. BANKS
29. SLOANE
30. CHAMBERLAYNE -
Quarterly or and gules, a bend
Quarterly of twelve, I, azure, three lions or
(Fiennes) ; 2, gules, three scallops argent
(Dacre) ; 3, argent, three bars gules, a label
azwri? (Moulton) ; 4, cheeky or and gules
(Vaux) ; 5, azure, sown with fleurs-de-lis and
fretty or (Morville) ; 6, azure, a chief or, three
cheverons interlaced in base (Fitzhugh) ; 7,
Barry of eight argent and gules a fleur-de-lis
sable (Staveley) ; 8, azure, a bend between
six crosslets or (Furneaux) ; 9, Barry argent
and azure, on a bend gules three martolets or
(Grey) ; 10, vair, a fess gules (Marmion) ; II,
or three cheverons gules a chief vair (St.
Quintin) ; 12, Barry of ten or and azure, an
eagle gw/^j (Gernegan).
On a lozenge, six pieces vert and or, a bull's head
sable and two garbs on the or.
Or, in chief two molets and in base a crescent
' gules.
Argent, a fess gules between three colts sable,
impaling azure, a lion crowned between three
crosslets or.
A cross between four fleurs-de-lis.
Gules, a sword in pale point down, argent, hilt
and pommel, or, between two boars' heads
cut off at the neck, or. On a chief ermine a
lion passant gules between two mascles sable.
Gules an inescutcheon argent within an orle of
eight molets or.
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PREFACE
THi; subject of the third volume of the Parish of Chelsea is^a single
building, but one that will never fail to arouse the deep interest,
even the veneration of the student of London. The Old Church
on Cheyne Walk is now within the Metropolitan area, but it still recalls a
period when Chelsea was a riverside village, albeit a village of palaces. ' To
• and to the men and women who dwelt therein, the Church owes much
of it> supreme interest as a human document in brick and stone. The
-tor)- of the building and its past worshippers has been eloquently told by
Mr. Randall Davies, son of the Rev. R. H. Davies, who, while incumbent,
gained for the inhabitants the freeholds of the beautiful chapels that stand
north and south of the chancel. Mr. Davies's book is generally recognized
as authoritative. To it the present volume is, we hope, a worthy sequel, our
object being to present as far as possible a full architectural account
of the Church, its fittings and monuments, 'and thus to complete
the record. The Committee have been engaged on work at Chelsea for
a number of years, but a large part of our material has been collected
during the past eighteen months. Certain of the earlier photographs,
however, taken before the late restoration of the Church, have been
included as being more valuable for reference than the views of to-day.
The intention expressed in a former volume of including the inscriptions in
the burial grounds of the Royal Hospital and the Moravians, and the
other public burial places of the Parish, with -those of the Churchyard
in this volume has had to be laid aside because of the increased cost of
printing and production. The inscriptions have, however, been all
collected and they will be printed in the fourth and concluding part of
the Survey.
The thanks of the Committee are due to the Rector of Chelsea,
the Venerable Archdeacon H. E. J. Bevan, to the Rev. Weston Henry
Stewart, incumbent of the Old Church, and to Mr. R. West, the verger
and watchful custodian of the Church's treasures, for the kindly assistance
they have i;i\cn. Acknowledgment is also made to the Trustees of the
Chelsea Public Library, and to Mr. J. H. Quinn in regard to the valuable
MS.* and other records under their care and for permission to reproduce
certain of the drawings ; to Major Sir Edward F. Coates, Bt., M.P., for
generously placing his famous collection at the Committee's disposal and
allowing reproductions to be made ; to Mr. Arthur S. Long, of 155 King's
Road, for permission to use a number of his photographs ; to Mr. Eric R.
Jarrett, A.R.I.B.A., and the following students of the Architectural Associa-
tion : Miss E. G. Cooke, Messrs E. R. Silver, Geoffrey Clark, Cecil Smith,
. White, A.R.I.B.A., Lifford Claydon, H. St. John Harrison, A.R.I.B.A.,
' Tin- is the first time that any extensive use has been made of Robert Chambers'
t of tho Church (1816) recently acquired by the Chelsea Library.
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PREFACE
and C. W. Fowler, who have furnished several of the most interesting of the
measured drawings ; and to Mr. Randall Davies, to whose labours every
student of Chelsea is indebted and to whom the Committee are obliged for
his kindness in reading the proofs of the present book.
I may, perhaps, be permitted to add a personal expression of
gratitude to our Editor, Mr. Philip Norman, and to those members of the
Committee who have assisted in a somewhat arduous task and without whose
labours this record could not have been undertaken or completed.
WALTER H. GODFREY.
I I CARTERET STREET,
QUEEN ANNE'S GATE, S.W. i.
XV
THE PARISH OF CHELSEA
THE OLD CHURCH
CHELSEA
I.— DESCRIPTION OF THE CHURCH
The old church by the riverside was the Parish Church of Chelsea
until 1819, when the new Church of St. Luke was built, and the old church
became a Chapel of Ease. Its original dedication was All Saints, but in the
latter part of the iyth century it became known as St. Luke's, a circumstance
which is associated with Dr. Baldwin Hamey, to whom the rector, Dr.
Adam Littleton, appears to have suggested this dedication in compliment to
the doctor's profession. However this may be, Dr. Hamey inscribed a bell,
which he presented to the church, to St. Luke, the inscription on which is
given on page 5. And from that time until the building of the new
parish church it was commonly called St. Luke's.
The Abbey of Westminster claimed the manor by virtue of a
charter from Edward the Confessor, until 1536, when it was sold to
the King.
The list of rectors, as far as they are known, is given on pages 84-5.
The chancel and the adjacent north and south chapels of the present
building are all that remain of the mediaeval work. The chancel probably
represents the 13th-century eastern limb, and the original splays of the
present modern east window may be the outer jambs of a triplet of lancet
windows which lighted the east end. A large window was no doubt inserted
at a later period, and drawings of the church in the i8th century show a
stone window of five lights which was removed in 1816 to make way for
the present lights, as noted by Robert Chambers.* The splays are cut off
by the timbers of the roof, showing that the chancel was lowered when it
was re-roofed in 1670. One or two of the stones of a lancet window appear
to have been reset to form a recess or locker in the east wall north of the
altar.
The arch opening from the chancel into the North Chapel fell down
in 1784, and the following inscription is to be seen on the north pier of the
chancel arch :
This PIER was
Rebuilt
In the Year 1784.
Only half of the arch (to the east) was rebuilt, the remainder of the wall
being supported by the Jervoise monument, which originally stood free.
The eastern respond of the arch is semi-octagonal with large splays, but at
the level of the springing is a square stone with splayed angles and a moulded
capital of uncertain date, probably recut. A plain squint behind this respond
gave a view of the high altar from the chapel, now almost obscured by the
arch to the Bray monument.
* Antiquities in the Church of St. Luke, Chelsea, MS. 1816. (Chelsea Public Library.)
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The north chapel was a separate freehold attached to the Manor
House and goes by the name of the Lawrence Chapel, from Thomas
I ,uu reiicc, who occupied the old Manor House in Lawrence Street. It passed
from him through the Offley family to Colonel the Honourable Francis
Needham. From him it went to the Lewer family, and Henry Lewer
sold it to the Rev. R. H. Davies in 1894 for £250, to be presented by him to
the church trustees. From the evidence of a range of three windows in the
north wall it would appear that the chapel was built early in the I4th century.
These windows were evidently built at one time, and the tracery in the
eastern window — which is now blocked on the inside, but shows its external
work in the new vestry — dates from c. 1320. The next window westwards
was removed to make way for a circular-headed brick doorway (mentioned
in the parish records in 1621), which retains its original oak door and strap
hinges, but the shape of the window-head, rear arch, and label moulding is
similar to that above described. It has lately been re-glazed- (see p. 9),
and some stones from its tracery are preserved in the church. The western
window is most complete, and is similar to the others in the shape of
the opening and the label moulding, and retains its original splay and two-
centred rear arch. The tracery, however, is of later date and was probably
inserted c. 1380. The lower part of the window has been removed to make
way for a late ^th-century doorway, now blocked, but retaining the staple
of the door hinge. The window in the east wall is modern, but a portion
of the north splay adjoins a late 14th-century cinquefoil niche which remains
to the north of it. The roof of this chapel is ceiled.
The south chapel is known as the More Chapel, and was remodelled
by Sir Thomas More when he lived in Chelsea. In an inventory of church
goods in the year 1549 it is called " the Lady More's Chapel." I, ike the
Lawrence Chapel, it was a freehold, and passed, on Sir Thomas More's at-
tainder, to the various possessors of his house, namely to the King, Sir William
Paulet, Marquis of Winchester, the second Marquis of Winchester, his step-
daughter Lady Dacre, Lord Burleigh, Sir Robert Cecil, Henry Clinton,
Karl of Lincoln, and his son-in-law, Sir Arthur Gorges. With Sir Arthur
Gorges it ceased to be connected with Sir Thomas More's house, and went
to the Milinan family, who lived in Gorges House ; it was sold by auction
<>n nth April, 1808, to Thomas Flight of Hackney, and passed successively
. and J. Flight, Richard Mann and his son, and lastly to I. F. Crew,
vho sold it to the Rev. R. H. Davies in 1874. This chapel also Mr. Davies
presented to the church trustees.
From the evidence of the fine arch connecting the chancel with this
chapel it would appear that the latter was of earlier date than the north
The arch is two-centred, of two chamfered orders with semi-
octagonal responds, and is built of Godstone stone. It has apparently at one
been reset, but the smallness of the stones and its general character
icate a date as early as the I3th century. When Sir Thomas More recon-
chapel he inserted in the responds of this arch a charming
his time. This consists of two very beautiful stone capitals
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which are now generally accepted as being from the design of Holbein,*
who was probably on a visit to Sir Thomas More in 1528, the date shown on
the eastern capital. Their design is based on the Composite order, that is,
each face of the octagon is treated as an Ionic capital in the upper part, with
volutes at the angles, and the remainder is carved with acanthus foliage.
The western capital has human heads carved in the centre of the abacus,
these being replaced in the eastern one by winged cherubs' heads, smaller
heads being used as terminals to the spiral of the volute. The following
objects also occur on the carved facets : (eastern capital) an achievement of
Sir Thomas More's arms, a panel with date 1528, a sword crossed with a
sceptre, a mace ; (western capital) a bundle of tapers, two crossed candle-
sticks, a pail (of holy water) and brush, and a missal with clasps. The carving
of the latter capital is continued on the wall of the chapel in very delicate
flowing foliage. The windows of the More Chapel (the east window and
two in the south wall) retain their four-centred arches and internal splays
only, the openings having been filled with semi-circular headed windows of
brick. The roof, however, retains its old oak beams. It is of two bays,
divided by a heavily moulded tiebeam of 14th-century date, a similar half
beam appearing against the east wall. These beams were evidently re-used,
as the king and queen posts supported by them and the brackets (towards
east and west) which carry the moulded purlins are probably not earlier than
the date of More's reconstruction.
The old nave and west tower were pulled down in the iyth century
and the present structure built in their place. Subscriptions towards the
rebuilding were asked for in 1669-70, and Mr. Randall Davies has shown that
the work was probably not begun until after Lady Cheyne's funeral, 1st
November, 1669. It was completed in January, 1671-2, with the exception
of the tower, which was finished in 1674.
Although built at a time when Wren's new London churches were
being designed and raised, the 17th-century work at Chelsea has a character
quite of its own, and the great brick tower might easily be mistaken, at a
first glance, for a product of the reign of Henry VIII. It was doubtless
a local design, wrought by Chelsea people, who were still far enough
away from London to be able to retain their own individuality and to give
to their building its local colour. The whole of the new structure was built
of brick — a fine warm-toned brick — with scarcely any admixture of stone.
The south and north elevations have each two lofty semi-circular headed
windows, with moulded mullions and transomes and pointed arched lights.
Between these is a doorway on each wall (now blocked) with a semi-circular
headed window above and a circular light at a still higher level. The archi-
traves, sills, and key blocks are all of brick, and the south door has an archi-
tectural brick frame with pilasters, entablature, and pediment. Under the
eaves is a deep plaster cove, which surrounds the nave beneath the hipped
* See article by F. M. Nichols, F.S.A., in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, 2nd Series,
Vol. XVII (1898).
CHELSEA
>fs. Inside, a semi-circular stone arch separates the chancel from the nave,
and similar arches (elliptical in shape) give on to the chapels. The arches
are moulded with keystones carved with winged cherubs' heads, and rest on
Mjuare piers of Portland stone, with moulded capitals and plain bases.
Across the west end of the church runs a gallery (vide infra), and the ceiling
in plaster, with a deep cove and moulded cornice with six winged cherubs'
heads.
The tower is five stages in height with an octagonal staircase turret
at the N.W. angle, and clasping buttresses of slight projection at the other
angles. The stages are marked by moulded brick string courses, and in the
belfry, or fourth floor, are brick windows of two pointed lights. The parapet
is of plain brick, and was formerly surmounted by a cupola, placed there in
1679 to receive the Ashburnham bell (q.v.). On the south side of the tower
is a stone let into the western buttress, inscribed as follows :
THIS CVPOLA WAS
REPAIRED AND THIS
VANE PUT UP IN
AVGVST 1704
.\ I ILES ARNOLD ) CHURCH
OLIVER MADOX | WARDENS
The cupola was removed in 1815, but the weather vane remains.
The tower opens on to the nave with a high acutely pointed arch
of brick of two orders, flanked by oak posts. It has been suggested that
this brickwork may conceal the mediaeval tower arch. North and south
of the tower are staircases to the gallery, on each side of the main
entrance to the church which is now through the ground floor of the
tower. The north stair is of oak, and is a good example of the time of
II. It has square newels with ball finials, and turned pendants, bold
spiral balusters, and heavily moulded handrail and string. The south stair
is of a plainer character.
CHELSEA
II.- -THE CHURCH FITTINGS
The great interest attaching to the old church proceeds in a large
degree from the number and beauty of its monuments to the past inhabi-
tants of the riverside village, and also to its numerous interesting fittings.
These latter will now be described in alphabetical order.
1. Bells.
The peal of bells placed in the tower at the rebuilding of 1670 was
recast in 1762, and bore the following inscriptions :
Tenor — Di[vo] Lucae Medico Evangelico Balduinus Hamey Phil Evan-
gelicus Medicus D.D.D. 1678. Recast in the year 1762. Robert
Yates and Richard Davis C.H. Wardens. Thomas Janaway
of London made us all.
•jtb. — Rob1 Yates & Richd Davis C.H. Wardens 1762
T. J. Fecit. Slone Ellsmere Rector D.D.
6th. — Tho! Janaway of London made us all 1762.
$th, \th, yrd, 2nd, and Treble. — Thomas Janaway of London fecit 1762.
Of these only No. 4 remains ; the rest were sold in 1824. A bell given
by the Hon. William Ashburnham, who left money for ringing it every night
at 9 o'clock, is preserved in the ground stage of the tower (Plate 23.) The
ringing was discontinued in 1822. The bell is inscribed :
THE GVIFT OF THE HONORABLE WILLIAM ASHBVRNHAM
ESQVIER COFFERER OF HIS MAIESTIES HOVSHOLD 1679.
2. Books.
In the south aisle is an oak bookcase and desk, to which are chained
the following books — the gift of Sir Hans Sloane : " Vinegar " Bible
(Baskett's Edition of 1717), several pages missing; Fox's Martyrs (Vols.
I and 3 only) (Ninth Edition, 1684) ; Homilies (1683). These have the auto-
graph of Sir Jonathan Trelawny, Bishop of Winchester. Prayer Book (1723).
The Registers date from 1559, and are preserved at the Parish church.
3. Brasses.
The brasses from the monument to Sir Arthur Gorges, and those
attached to the Duchess of Northumberland's tomb are described under
" Monuments."
A Purbeck slab in the floor of the chancel (north side) shows the
matrix of the brass of a priest. (See Plate 39.) This is probably for either
Thomas Shalers (died 1451) or William Massenger (died 1470), rectors buried
at Chelsea.
CHELSEA
A Purbcck slab in the floor of the chancel beneath the arch leading
to tin- Lawrence Chapel shows the matrix of the brass effigy of a man in
armour and that of his wife, with scrolls issuing from their mouths and four
^hields of arms. It has been suggested that this marks the grave of Sir Henry
U'.iver, Sheriff of the City of London in 1465. He was chosen alderman,
during his shrievalty, for Castle Baynard Ward and afterwards of Bishops-
LMU- Ward. He is described as a draper, and was made a Knight of the Bath
on the occasion of the coronation of Elizabeth Woodville, consort to
Kdward IV*. He died in 1470, and bequeathed his body to be buried in
the Church of St. Peter, in Cornhill, before the image of St. George there,
but there is a ijth-century record in an Harleianf manuscript of the follow-
ing inscription in Chelsea Church :
ORATE PRO BONO STATV HENRIE WAVER MILITIS
ET CRISTINE VXORIS EIVS
with the arms given as argent, on a fess sable 3 scallops or, impaled with : I
and 4, ermine a cheveron sable ; 2 and 3, on a fess sable 3 crowns or.
Mr. Robert Chambers! was of opinion that this inscription and
coat-of-arms belonged to some painted glass in the church, and considered
that the matrix (which he describes as having held a whole length figure in
armour with dog at his feet and sword by his side) represented the effigy of
John Shoreditch, sometime lord of the manor of Chelsea, who died c. 1407.
Another matrix is to be seen on the tomb of Edmund Lord Bray.
4. Chairs.
Two chairs in the chancel have been constructed of old timber and
panelling found in the tower, which were parts of the old pews and furniture
of the church.
5. Chests.
A plain rectangular chest with six locks, probably early 17th-century,
is preserved in the vestry.
6. Clock.
The clock in the tower is inscribed :
Anno 1761
Edmund Howard
Chelsea
7. Communion Table.
The communion table is of late 17th-century date, and has a moulded
top, with six spiral baluster legs, ball feet, and plain rails. (Plate 23.)
' Aldermen of the City of London, by Rev. A. B. Beaven.
An I k-raldic book in folio, consisting of coats, pedigrees, and fragments collected by the
third Handle Holme (1627-99). Harleian MSS. 2113, folio 114 dorso.
i Antiquities in the Church of St. Luke, Chelsea, MS. 1816, in Chelsea Public Library.
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8. Communion Rails.
The communion rails are of good design of late lyth-century date.
The angles of the enclosure are rounded. The balusters are spiral-turned,
with heavily moulded rail and sill. A group of four balusters stand on each
side of the centre portion of the rails, which forms a pair of folding gates.
(Plate 24.)
9. Doors.
The early lyth-century door in the north wall of the Lawrence Chapel,
and the heavy entrance door to the tower, are both preserved.
10. Flags.
The iron standards for four flags project from the east wall
of the nave, but two of the colours have disappeared. The remainder
are the survivors of a number of flags that were deposited in the
church on two separate occasions, the first being the gift of the Ladies
of Chelsea (in 1800), and the second by Queen Charlotte (in 1804) to the
Volunteers.
The flag belonging to the earlier group appears to have been originally
6 ft. square, but now measures 6 ft. X4 ft. 6 in. It is a red Ensign (with the
Jack composed of the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew), and in the
centre is a figure of St. Luke embroidered within sprays of foliage
bearing roses and thistles. On a scroll beneath are the words :
ST. LUKE CHELSEA.
The other flag, presented by Queen Charlotte, is a Union Jack,
6 ft. X 5 ft., with the Royal arms in the centre, and on a scroll the
words :
QUEENS ROYAL VOLUNTEERS.
11. Font.
The font is a beautiful octagonal fluted bowl of white marble on a
baluster stem (Plates 25-6), and retains its original oak cover, which is octagonal
on plan, each side being curved in ogee form to the summit. Enriched gilt
ribs mark the angles of the sides, and the whole is surmounted by a dove,
and is hung to a carved boss which originally supported one of two chandeliers
given by Thomas Frankling and Ester his wife in 1693. The other carved
boss is now fixed to the ceiling of the vestibule under the tower. The date
of the font is fixed by the following entry in the Parish Register of 1763 :
" Luke the son of Thomas Gough was baptised the 22d of December, and
was the First that was baptised in the new Font given by Mr. Edward
Bringhurst." The baluster is fractured and the bowl may have been
restored.
12. Gallery.
The present gallery, which is supported on six wooden Doric columns,
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extends across the whole width of the western end of the nave, and bears
the following inscription on the east face :
THE LOWER PART OF THIS CHURCH WAS REPEWED
AND REPAIRED BY THE CHURCH TRUSTEES, £200 OF
THE COST BEING SUBSCRIBED BY THE CONGREGA-
TION A.D. 1858 THE REVD C. KINGSLEY LL.B RECTOR.
THE REVD R. H. DAVIES B.A. INCUMBENT. JOHN
FIELDER AND JOHN HURSTWAITE LEET ESQRS
CHURCHWARDENS. THOMAS TOMBLESON AND
EDWARD RICHARDS ESQRES SIDESMEN.
In the middle panel is a clock with the date 1857. The original structure
was much smaller, and its plan is shown by a small wooden template which
forms part of the following inscription on the western face :
This gallery was erected by the Church Trustees A.D. 1857. REV".
C. KINGSLEY, LL.B., Rector ; REVD. R. H. DAVIES, B.A., Incum-
bent ; J. FIELDER & J. PERRY, ESQRS Church Wardens : it replaced
a former one planned thus
©
I
and bearing the Inscription : THIS GALLERY WAS BEAUTIFIED
IN THE YEARE OF OUR LORDE 1677
Against the tower are two heavy oak posts (12 in. x 9 in.), cased
the gallery level by fluted pilasters with moulded capitals, above
vhich they project in boldly carved cherubs' heads with folded wings over
shaped panels. These posts evidently support the roof, and formed part
"t the original gallery of 1677.
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13. Glass.
During restorations in the last century some fragments of I4th or
15th-century glass were found bricked up in the windows of the Lawrence
Chapel, and have recently been incorporated in the glass presented by Capt.
Clifford J. W. Hoskin and fixed in the window over the vestry door. The
work has been carried out by Captain Maurice Drake of Exeter, and a key
plan showing the old glass is preserved in the Committee's collection.
14. Hatchments.
(1) Cadogan. — On the east wall of the nave (towards the
north) are the arms of Cadogan : Quarterly I & 4, gules a lion looking
back or ; 2 & 3, argent 3 boars' heads cut off at the neck sable (Cadogan)
impaling argent, a fret gules, for Blake, with crest and supporters.
MottO : QUI INVIDET MINOR EST (1864).
(2) Hatchett. — On the east wall of the nave (towards the south)
are the arms of Charles Hatchett : Quarterly I & 4, argent, 2 bars, the
upper one indented, gules; 2 & 3, gules between 2 flaunches argent 6
crosslets or, on an inescutcheon party palewise or and azure 3 cheverons
counter-coloured. Motto : IN CCELO QUIES.
(3) Cadogan. — On the north wall of the nave (towards the east)
are the arms of the Rev. the Honourable William Bromley Cadogan.
MottO : CHRIST THE HOPE OF GLORY.
(4) Cadogan. — Below the foregoing is another of Cadogan
without motto : Impaling quarterly I & 4, gules, a cross or between
5 besants on each quarter ; 2 & 3, argent a lion gules.
(5) Cremorne. — On the north wall of the nave (towards the
west) is a hatchment bearing the arms of Viscount Cremorne (1813) :
Quarterly i & 4, azure, on a bend engrailed or 3 martlets gules ;
2 & 3, azure, 3 torches ; over all an inescutcheon or, charged with
a cheveron and in chief a bar engrailed sable.
(6) Edwards. — Below the foregoing is a hatchment bearing the
following arms : Party bendwise sinister ermine and ermines, a lion
or (Edwards) impaling gules, a cheveron between 2 molets in chief
and a crescent in base or, on a chief azure 3 molets or. Crest : a man's
head in profile, helmeted. Motto : A vinno dew Derwid.
(7) Hatchett. — On the south wall of the nave (towards the
east) the arms of Hatchett, as in (2).
(8) Cadogan.— Below the foregoing the arms of Cadogan as
in (4), but with motto.
(9) Browne. — On the south wall of the nave (towards the
west) a hatchment bearing the arms of Browne. Sable, 3 lions passant
in bend between 2 cotises argent, in chief a griffon's head erased
argent. Impaling sable (or azure), a fess ermine. Motto : RESURGAM.
15. Hatstand.
Two 18th-century hatstands of wrought iron are fixed to the back
pews beneath the gallery.
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16. Helm.
A funeral helm, with an eagle's head as crest, is supported on a bracket
nn the cast wall of the More Chapel. The committee have been favoured
with a report from Major Victor Farquharson, F.S.A., and Mr. Mill Stephen-
son, F.S.A., who inspected the helm on gth October, 1915. They state that
it is an original armet of c. 1530, or possibly a little earlier, to which has
been added (at the time of the funeral) a beevor and the gorget plate. The
armet vizor appears to have had the lower portion cut away, perhaps for
vertical bars, which would have been fastened from its lower edge to the chin
piece. There is little doubt that it was used at the funeral of Lord Dacre,
and belongs to his monument. The helmet is painted and gilt. (Plate 27.)
17. Images.
A figure of St. Luke in oak, gilt (about 12 in. high), holding a book,
is now fixed to the south pier of the chancel arch (west face). Iris of late
17th-century date, and formerly stood on the sounding-board of the pulpit.
Ralph Palmer, in his memoir of Dr. Baldwin Hamey, states that " out of
respect to St. Luke and Dr. Hamey, one Fletcher, a favourite servant of
the doctor's, gave the little figure of St. Luke which stands upon the rising
roof of the pulpit."
1 8. Inscriptions.
Charitable bequests painted on wood and hung in church.
1 . West Wall of gallery. South side :
/ Samuel Hunton EJqr gave by will
1798 One Hundred Pounds, the Interest
I Arijing therefrom, to be Annually
i Distributed in Bread and Coals
To the Poor of this Parish
' the Week before Chriftmas
2. On West Wall of Gallery. North side :
/ Mr. Charles Larchin gave by
1766 will to each of the Charity Schools
of this PariOi, Ten Pounds
!Mr. Henry Hewitt gave by
will to each of the Charity Schools
of this Parifh, Twenty Five Pounds
William Joujfelin Efqr gave by
1782 • Will to each of the Charity Schools
of this Parifh, Fifteen Pounds
Mrs Sarah Coggs gave
by will, to each of the
Charity-Schools of this
Parifh, Twenty Pounds
10
)
IOO
L. S. D.
20 : — : —
50 :— :—
30 :— :—
40 : — :—
CHELSEA
On the North Wall of Tower by the entrance is a grey stone tablet
with enriched border and eight bells carved in low relief. (Plate 28.)
COLLEGE YOUTHS
This Society Rung February the i8th 1785
5040 bob Major in 3 hours & 15 Mints
being the Ist true PEAL Ever Rung on
Thefe BELLS.
JAS WORSTER treb
EDWD SIMMONS 2d
GEO PLOWMAN 3d
JSRL JOHNSON 4th
WM HALLET 5th
RlCHD MlLLARD 6th
THOS VERREN 7th
WM FAULKNER tenr
CALLD by JAMES WORSTER
MR GEORGE HARRISON
MR ROBERT MARRIOT
CHURCHWARDENS
19. Mace.
The churchwarden's mace of silver with shaped top surmounted by
a figure of St. Luke is preserved at the Old Church and is inscribed :
ST LUKE CHELSEA
Thomas Simplin \ CHURCH WARDENS
David Eggleton ) 1791
A replica, silver gilt, at the Parish Church (date mark 1797-8, maker's
mark I T), is inscribed :
ST LUKE CHELSEA
Joseph Leake } CHURCH WARDENS
Richard Price) 1798
THE CHURCH
reseated October 1884
CHURCH WARDENS
J. J. Wheeler)
and on the lower part :
John Fielder Esqr \ CHURCH WARDENS
John Perry Repaired 1857
Repaired y parcel gilt by
G. R. Craney ex Churchwarden
1 8 October 1884
A second replica, silver gilt, also at the Parish Church, bears the
names of Thomas Hoblyn and William Deacon, Churchwardens 1829, and
repeats the subsequent inscriptions on the above.
There is a silver mounted staff of cane at both churches for the maces.
A silver staff (date 1824) 2 ft. II in. long, with knob at one end and
moulded head at the other, banded in the centre, is preserved at the Parish
Church.
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Bat t max.
(base)
base :
20. Niches.
There is a niche in the east wall of the Lawrence Chapel, to the north
of the c.^t window, with cinquefoil cusping beneath a two-centred moulded
arch. It is of late 14th-century date, and was probably repeated on the south
side of the window.
A plain two-centred arched niche or locker is in the east wall of the
chancel north of the altar. It appears to be formed of stones of a lancet
window reset. (Plate 33.)
21. Piscina.
The eastern half of the piscina remains in the south wall of the
chancel, and has a chamfered four-centred arch and jamb of the I5th
century. A groove has been cut for a shelf. The western part was removed
to insert the adjacent doorway.
22. Plate.
i.* Flagon, silver gilt, height u in., diameter (mouth) 4^ in.,
7 in. ; date mark 1680-1 ; maker's mark, I.E. Inscribed under
Anna Morgan Aprill 3 Anno Domini 1681.
and on the side : I H S within a sun in splendour.
2.* Flagon similar to No. i, with the same inscription.
3.* Alms-dish with moulded rim and foot, silver gilt, diameter 12
ins. ; date mark, 1676-7 ; maker's mark F.S. Inscribed :
Dedicated
to y' use of the
Communion Table in Chelsey ,
Church in memory of Mrs Elizabeth
Bateman who dyed in y' Parish
the 2d of Auguft
1675 Etat sue
*7
The inscription is in a lozenge, and in another are the arms : Three crescents,
each having a star (molet) between the horns. The dish is further ornamented
with feathered scrollwork and a small skull beneath the inscription.
4.* Chalice with baluster stem, silver gilt, height 7 ft in. ; diameter
hp 3? in.; date mark, 1778-9; maker's mark W.B., inscribed with
I H h within the sun's rays.
5. Chalice similar to No. 4.
6.* Paten, with foot and incised rim, silver gilt ; date mark, 1624-; ;
maker s mark F.G.
* Kept at the Parish Church of St. Luke.
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7.* Spoon, rat-tail pattern, silver gilt, length 7$- in. ; date mark,
1698-9. Inscribed:
The gift of the Revd Charles Sturges 1797.
8.* Alms-dish, pewter with deep scolloped rim, diameter lo| in.,
engraved with the seated figure of St. Luke and bull within a circle.
9 and 10. Two alms-dishes, pewter, similar to No. 8, but without
figure of St. Luke, and inscribed :
St. Lukes Chelsea 1754
1 1 * and 1 2 . * Two alms-dishes, pewter, similar to the last, but dated 1 764.
13 and 14. Two similar dishes dated 1784.
23. Pulpit.
The hexagonal pulpit is of late 17th-century date, with rectangular
raised panels and bolection mouldings enriched with leaf ornament. Fes-
toons of carved leaf and fruit adorn the angles. The cornice and base are
moulded, and it is supported by a trumpet-shaped stem. The stair is modern.
It originally possessed a sounding-board on which stood the figure of St.
Luke already described. (Plates 29—30.)
24. Royal Arms.
An entry in the Parish Books records the putting up of the King's
Arms in 1678. They are painted on wood, and originally formed the centre
panel of a gallery in the chancel. They are now hung above the chancel
arch in the nave.
25. Seating, etc.
The seating of the church dates from 1858, but a few of the old
panelled oak pews remain in the Lawrence Chapel. On one of these is painted
a circular medallion with an achievement of arms : Or a lion passant between
three tassels gules (? Chester) impaling azure a bend between 3 birds or. Crest :
A hand holding a sword.
Various carved panels are incorporated in the modern seats, and in
the chancel are two carved panels showing a mitre in the foliage, which
formerly belonged to the pew of the Bishops of Winchester (1718).
A small cabinet (triangular in plan) of marquetry work (c. 1700) has
been converted into a prayer desk.
26. Sundial.
The stone sundial built into the southern face of the eastern buttress
of the tower is of simple rectangular form, with a plain metal rod and stay
as gnomon. It bears the date 1692, and the motto :
UT VITA FINIS ITA.
27. Weather-vane.
The vane, surmounted by a crown, dates from 1704, as recorded on
the inscription stone on the tower (vide ante). (Plate 31.)
* Kept at the Parish Church of St. Luke.
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III.— MONUMENTS WITHIN THE CHURCH*
Chancel. East Wall.
1. EDWARD HOLL, 1823.
A square inscription tablet of white marble with black surround.
2. LUCY SMITH, 1781, and ANNE WILTON, 1781.
This tablet is by Joseph Wilton, sculptor (1722-1803), stated by
Faulknerf to be the father of these ladies. The inscription slab of white
marble has a cornice and two pendants with guttae, and supports two draped
funeral urns of different design in white marble, set against a pyramidal
background of grey marble. The inscription reads :
To the Memory of two affectionate Sifters .
whofe Remains are depofited
in the Vault of
this Chancel.
The virtues which in their fhort Lives were Jhewn :
Have equal' d been by few ; Jurpajs'd by none.
On the urns are panels, elliptical and rectangular respectively, and inscribed:
LUCY SMITH ANNE WILTON
died died
22"J Aug" 1781 March io'h 1781 .
aged aged 23 Tears
33 Years
Beneath the inscription panel is : J. Wilton fecit.
3. MARY RUSH, 1854.
An elliptical tablet of white marble with black surround.
4. THOMAS HURD, 1823: FREDERICA KURD, 1824.
A tablet of white marble with cornice and pedimental head on a
ground of black marble.
5. CATHERINE RUSH, 1846.
An elliptical inscription tablet of white marble on a rectangular
background of black marble.
* Inscriptions after 1800 are not given except in the case of monuments of particular
interest
f Chelsea and its Environs, Vol. I, p. 214.
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6. MARTHA DENVER, 1795: JOHN DENYER, 1806.
An inscribed rectangular slab of white marble with a grey marble
surround, having a white moulded cornice. The inscription runs :
Sacred to the memory of JOHN and MARTHA DENVER
The best of Parents, and the best of Friends
Who resigned this mortal life in a well grounded hope
of a Joyful Resurrection to Eternal Life
through Faith in the alone merits
of our LORD and Saviour JESUS CHRIST
They lived together in great connubial Happinefs
Forty two years and died
MARTHA on the i8th Day of January. 1795 Aged 64 Years
and JOHN on the 6th Day of January. 1806 Aged 76 Years
Their Remains are interred in Millman Chapel
in the South Aisle of this their Parish Church.
With a grateful Remembrance of their many Kindnesses
This Tablet is Erected by their only Child and Daughter.
Chancel. North Wall.
j. MOUNTAGUE RUSH, 1808.
8. ELIZA CHAMBERS, 1818.
9. HENRY RUSH, 1812.
10. HONOUR RUSH, 1814: GEORGE RUSH, 1814.
11. ELOISE RUSH, 1823: JOHN RUSH, 1828: HENRY RUSH,
1839.
12. REVo JOHN RUSH, LL.B., 1855.
With the exception of No. n, which is rectangular, these are all
elliptical slabs of white marble. The Rev. John Rush was the first incum-
bent of the old church, after the new parish church was built. He acted
as curate to the Hon. G. V. Wellesley, Rector of Chelsea.
13. THOMAS HUNGERFORD, 1581.
This tablet of alabaster and marble bears the kneeling effigies of (left)
Thomas Hungerford and two sons (the head of the first son is missing),
and (right) his wife Ursula, daughter of William Lord Sandes, and their
daughter, all attired in the costume of the period. Two semi-circular arches,
one over each group, are separated by a Corinthian column which, with two
similar columns at the sides, supports a horizontal entablature with a dentil
course in the cornice. The entablature (with the exception of the top
member of the cornice) breaks forward over the columns, and a similar
treatment occurs on the plinth which bears two inscribed panels between
the pedestals to the columns. The whole is supported on an unbroken
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HungerfirJ.
horizontal moulding, and is crowned by a medallion and two shields of arms,
enclosed in frames of ornamental strapwork.
'I 'he frieze of the entablature is inscribed as follows :
O LORDE IN THE HAVE I TRVSTED
LETT ME NEVER BE CONFOVNDED.
And in the panels are the following lines :
HERE LIETH THE BODIES OK THOMAS HVNGERFORD
OF CHILSEY IN THE COVNTY OF MIDD ESQVIER
THE SECOND SONNE OF ROBERT HVNGERFORD
THELDER OF CADNAME IN THE COVNTY OF WILTH
ESQVIER WHICH HATH SERVED KING HENRY THE
VIII IN THE ROMETH OF A GENTILMA PENCIONER AND
WAS WITH HIS MATI1 AT THE WINING OF BOLOGNE .
AND KING EDWARD THE VI AT MVSSELBROVGFE
FEILD BESIDES QVENE MARY AND QVENE
ELIZABETH IN THEIR AFFAIRES BEING OF
THADGE OF LXX YERES WHO HAD TO WIFE
VRSVLA MAIDENHEAD THE DAVGHTER
OF THE LADY SANDS ANNO DOMNE 1581.
The central medallion bears : Quarterly I & 4, sable, 2 bars argent, in
chief 3 plates (Heytesbury) ; 2 & 3, Party palewise indented gules and vert, a
cheveron or (Hungerford). Above is a badge of a garb between 2 sickles.
The left-hand shield bears : Quarterly I & 4, Heytesbury quartering Hun-
gerford with a crescent for difference ; 2, gules, 3 garbs argent banded gules,
a chief or (Peverell) ; 3, quarterly ; i & 4, ermine, a lion gules crowned or
within an engrailed border sable bezanty (Plantagenet, Earl of Cornwall) ;
2 & 3, or, a saltire engrailed sable (Botetourt).
The shield on the right hand bears : Quarterly I & 4, Heytesbury
quartering Hungerford ; 2 & 3, Peverell.
Thomas Hungerford appears to have possessed, and probably
resided in, Arch House, Chelsea, which is . described in Chelsea, Part II.*
He married Ursula, daughter of William Lord Sandes, the lord of the
manor, and widow of James Barnard, whose sister Winifred married Richard
Jervoise. He held properties in Chelsea in right of his wife.t
14. RICHARD WILSON, D.D., 1879.
A small rectangular slab of white marble with small medallion portrait.
15. MARIA BUCKBY, 1733.
A large tablet in white marble; the inscribed stone is flanked by
" Survey of London, Vol. IV, p. 4.
I I'.ntry in Court Rolls, 1544 (P.R.O., fo. 205), quoted by Mr. Randall Davics in Chfhf,,
Old Church, p. 226. Also ibid., pp. 227-9.
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fluted pilasters with capitals of the Composite order and plain ant<z. The
pilasters support sections of entablature and a cleft pediment of which the
two side portions are curved and end in plain volutes, while in the centre is
a detached portion of the usual triangular form, surmounted by a cartouche
with a lozenge-shaped shield of arms. A carved lamp stands on each side.
A plain ledge, brackets, and a panelled apron complete the lower part of the
memorial.
The arms are : sable, a cheveron between 3 bucks' attires or. The
inscription runs : Buckby.
H.S.E.
MARIA BUCKBY
GULIELMI BUCKBY Servientis ad Legem Filia,
Virgo omni Officiorum generc,
Omnibus Animi Dotibus,
Inftructa ;
Singulis memorare,
Tarn cumulates Virtutis Diminutio foret.
Deo Pietas, Homini Caritas
Inclaruit,
Animi Firmitatem Dolorum perpejsio,
Spem caelitu's demifsam Mortis Contemptio
Comprobavit.
Omnes callebat Artes quce Faeminam decebant,
Sibi bonorificas, Suis perjucundas,
Obijt A.D. 1733.
ANNA SKINNER i Sorore Filia,
Cui tantam Virtutem propius contemplari licuit,
Diuturnce Consentudinis memor,
Et ne neglectcz jacerent tarn dulces Exuvice
Hoc Monumentum Pojuit
juxta Quod Ipsa moriens
Anno Xti MDCCLVI sepeliri
Voluit.
Ann Skinner resided in No. 24 Cheyne Row (Carlyle's House) from
1725 to 1736,* and is mentioned in the will of Robert Woodcock as being
in possession of his house in Church Lane in 1710.
16. EDMUND LORD BRAY, 1539.
This stone altar tomb, though stated by Lysons to be on the north
side of the chancel,, was not in its present position, where it has been
* Survey of London, Vol. IV, p. 64.
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placed under a modern recess in the north wall. It retains its original
moulded coping slab, which no doubt bore a brass effigy. The side of the tomb
which is now visible has two lozenge-shaped panels with shields and tracery,
and remains of a similar panel at the east end. A portion of the original
inscription is preserved in John Weever's Ancient Funeral Monuments (1631) :
" Of your charitie pray for the soul of Edmund Bray, Knight, Lord
Bray, cosin and heire to Sir Reignold Bray, knight of the garter. . . ."
He states (p. 523) that " His brother Reignold Bray Esquire lieth buried by
him, but their monuments are so defaced that I can find no further remem-
brance, neither of their lives, nor of their death."
Sir Reginald Bray, who acquired the manor of Chelsea in 1485, was
a distinguished man of affairs in the reign of Henry VII. He has credit for
the important part he took in arranging the marriage between the Earl of
Richmond, afterwards Henry VII, and the Princess Elizabeth, and his services
as statesman were only rivalled by his activities as architect if his reputed
connection with the designs for St. George's Chapel, Windsor, and Henry
VII's Chapel, Westminster, has any foundation in fact. In 1496 he made his
nephew, Edmund Bray, his heir, and died in 1503. We do not know whether
he was buried at Chelsea, but his brother John, the father of Edmund, was
interred in the old church, as we learn from the will of his son, who directs
" my bodie to be buried at Chelsey besides the Sepulture of John Bray
Esquier." John, second Lord Bray, who died in 1557, was also buried at
Chelsea, and a full account of his funeral procession from Blackfriars is given
in a manuscript preserved at the Heralds' College (MS. I. XV., fo. 279).
In it he is stated to have been " buryed at Chelseye in the myddest of the
highe chauncell there, with his father and grandfather undre one highe
tombe there." The tomb and banners are shown in a drawing in the
Lansdowne MSS., of which a copy is in the Council's collection.
A modern inscription was placed over this tomb in 1902 by Reginald
More Bray, K.C., now a judge. The relationship of the members of the
family, and the succession of the manor may be set forth thus :
Sir Reginald Bray, K.G., John Bray, Esqr
Lord of the manor 1485-1503. Buried at Chelsea.
Sir Edmund, Lord Bray Margery Bray
Lord of the manor 1503-1510. married Sir William Sandes,
Buried at Chelsea 1539. afterwards Lord Sandes.
I Lord of the Manor 1510-15
John, 2nd Lord Bray,
Died 1557. Aged 36.
Buried at Chelsea.
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17. ADAM LITTLETON, D.D., 1694.
A plain rectangular tablet of white marble, on two small brackets,
and crowned with moulded cornice and cleft pediment enclosing a little
funeral urn with flames. The inscription is the following :
Hie prope si'tum eft Corpus
Doctifsimi Viri, et de literis optime
Meriti, AD AMI LITTLETON
S:T:P: Capellani REG1J : Canonici
WESTMONASTERIENSIS : &
Hujus Ecclef ias (per fpatium
XXIIII Annorum) Rectoris,
Omnibus hujus PAROCHI1E
Incolis unice Chari : e ftirpe
Antiqua, & Venerabili Oriundi.
Obijt ultimo die lunij 1694.
Anno aetatis fuae 67.
Dr. Littleton was rector of Chelsea from 1669-70 to 1694. His
Latin Dictionary, which has made his name well known, was published in
1673. ^n 1680 he published a volume of sixty-one sermons, which he dedi-
cated to the inhabitants of the parish. Copies of these two works have recently
been presented to the church by Mr. Randall Davies. He delivered the
funeral sermon at the burial of Lady Jane Cheyne on I November, 1669,
and turned Lord Cheyne's inscriptions for her tomb into Latin. It was
during his rectorship that the nave and tower of the Church were pulled
down and rebuilt.
1 8. MARIA HYDE, 1831.
A rectilinear tablet with shaped angles of white marble on a grey
marble background.
19. THOMAS (1827) AND CATHERINE LONG, 1822.
A rectilinear tablet of white marble, with horizontal moulded capping
and two small brackets, on a background of black marble.
20. EDWARD STANLEY, 1751.
A simple tablet with shaped outline, the edge moulded with a plain
bead, inscribed as follows :
In Memory
of
EDWARD STANLEY Efq*.
of DALEGARTH in the. County
of CUMBERLAND ^
who Died the 23d of luly /7J/.
Aged 61.
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»i. ANN STAFFORD, 1722. HUGH STAFFORD, 1729.
A square inscription tablet of white marble, with projecting bead
on edge and a semi-circular head carved with branches of palm, inscribed as
foil*
Near this Place lies the Body of
M ANN STAFFORD daughter. Oi
HUGH STAFFORD Efq of Pynes in
the county of Devon who departed
this life July the 3Oth 1722. Aged 18
years.
As alfo the Body of HUGH
STAFFORD Gentleman only fon
of the afore-faid HUGH STAFFORD
Efqr who departed this life April
the 29lh 1729. Aged 23 years.
22. ANNA BRIDGE, 1807.
Shaped tablet, in form of the end of a sarcophagus, on background ot
grey marble with a cross, and having a white marble panel inscribed in
Latin.
23. RICHARD JERVOISE, 1563.
This monument stands between the Chancel and the Lawrence
Chapel, and supports part of the wall and roof of the Church. It is probable,
as already stated, that the tomb originally stood free, and that it was
brought into service in this way when the arch to the Lawrence Chapel
was rebuilt in 1784. It is of freestone, now painted, and consists of a deep
semi-circular arch, with moulded archivolt, standing on two piers which form
the responds of the arch, pilasters being introduced on the face of the piers
above the springing, and the whole being crowned by a horizontal entablature
which breaks forwards over the pilasters. The north and south elevations
are similar, the entablature consisting of a plain moulded cornice, a very
deep fluted frieze and moulded architrave. In the centre of the frieze is
an t scutcheon with a shield of arms and a crest on either side. Two other
shields are in the sunk spandrels over the arch. The pilasters have strap-
Work ornament at the frieze level, below which is a conventional palm leaf
beneath a large flower and festoon of drapery. The responds have moulded
cornice and base, and two panels, each ornamented with convex flutes or
rnlk The flutes on the frieze and the panels to the piers below the springing
are repeated at the ends of the monument, but in the place of the arch is
a semi-circular headed niche with a shell pattern carved above vertical
fluting. The soffit of the arch has a continuous band of strapwork in high
relief, the upper panels of each pier beneath the springing being occupied
by an achievement of arms on the east face of the west pier, and by
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an inscribed panel of alabaster let into the other. The inscription is as
follows :
VIRTVTIS PRJEMIVM LAVS
RlCHARDI, LECTOR, GERVOISI FVNERA CERNIS,
VNA HIC PARTE SVI, CORPORE NEMPE IACET.
IVRISCONSVLTVS, IVS MORTIS NON FVGIT ATRJE
IVS HABET IN IVVENES, IVS HABET INQ SENES.
OMNES ILLA RAPIT, NVLLO DISCRIMINE SJEVIT :
SERIVS, AVT CITIVS, MORS TRVCVLENTA VENIT.
ILLA FVRENS IVVENIS IVVENILIA FILA RESOLVIT,
ANNIS AH, IVVENIS, MENTE ERAT ISTE SENEX.
HVNC SVPER ASTRA TVLIT VHVE CONSTANTIA, MORTIS
EXITVS, ET VERjE RELIGIONIS AMOR.
ILLI VITA FVIT CHRISTVS, MORS OPTIMA LVCRVM,
MORTVVS ERGO SVIS, VIVIT AT ILLE DEO.
OBIJT 6° DIE FEB.
A° DNI 1563
A° j<£TATIS SVM, 27.
The arms on the centre shields are sable, a cheveron between 3 eaglets
argent (Jervoise) impaling quarterly I & 4, sable, within a border gulfs, a
cheveron between 3 spear-heads or, a molet for difference on the cheveron ;
2 & 3, azure, 3 beacons burning or. The arms of Jervoise and of the first
quartering on the impaled coat are given on separate shields, and the Jervoise
arms also appear in the achievement beneath the arch. The crest, which
appears also twice on the frieze on both sides of the monument, is a tiger's
head sable, tusked and maned or.
It seems evident that the monument is incomplete, and that it was
originally intended to have an altar tomb beneath the arch.* Indeed,
there are two extant drawings showing an altar tomb, one in the collection
of Sir Edward Coates, Bt. (Plate 42), and the other on a pedigree of
the Jervoise family at the College of Arms. Part of the plinth on which
the tomb stood was discovered a few years back and restored to its original
position.
The inscription on the monument is to Richard, the third son of
Richard Jervoise, who resided in the old Manor House (afterwards Lawrence
Housef) after Henry VIII had purchased it from Lord Sandes.
Thomas Faulkner says that the monument " was probably erected
to Richard Gervoice, Sheriff of London, who died in 1557,"! but we have
no record of the date of his death, and Faulkner appears to have given this
year, owing to the fact that it was the date of the grant of the old Manor
* Mr. Robt. Chambers states in a note inserted in his MS. (Antiquities in the Church of
St. Luke, Chelsea) that " the altar tomb, which was wainscotted round, was removed away in
the spring of 1819 to make the pew larger ; there was no inscription upon it."
t See Survey of London, Vol. IV, p. 58.
} Chelsea and its Environs, Vol. I, p. 215.
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Jervoise.
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House to John Caryll, the Patent describing the house as " now or late in
the occupation of Richard Jarvoys.". The elder Richard married Winifred
Stathum (nee Barnard), whose brother James was the first husband of
Ursula Sandes. We have already seen that this Ursula was daughter of
Lord Sandes and ultimately married Thomas Hungerford. The Jervoise
family history is given with much interesting detail in a paper by Mr.
F. H. T. Jervoise in The Ancestor, Vol. III.
24. BALDWIN HAMEY, M.D., 1676.
A slab of black polished marble, with shaped head and base and
moulded edge, bears an inscription as below, also a shield of arms in the
upper portion and a medallion with crest in the lower.
M. S
IN ipfo Ecclefiae Adyto
Sub lato marmore luxta deponitur
BALDUINUS HAMEY. M.D.
Academiae Lugdunenfis Batavorum
Oxonienfis Anglorum
Collegiique Medicorum Londinienfis
Deliciae Decus et Defiderium
Eruditorum olim Afylum
Facultatis Lumen
Vera Encyclopaedia
Ex animo
Phil-Evangelicus Medicus
Anglus.
RADULPHUS PALMER Obiit An° JEtaf 76
Ar. e Soc : Med. Templi Restauratae falutis
Pronepos pie pofuit. MDCLXXVI.
Arms : Gules, a fess or between a roebuck or in chief, and three
molets of six points argent in base. Motto : SITIENDO. Crest : a demihart.
The stone in the floor of the Chancel covering his grave is inscribed
as follows :
THE RETVRN OF BALDWIN HAMEY
DR OF PHYSIC K ON THE i^th day of May
BEING WHITSVNDAY IN THE YEAR OF OVR
LORD ^76 IN THE 76 YEAR OF HIS AGE
PSALM 146 VERSE 4.
" HIS BREATH GOETH FORTH AND MAN
RETVRNETH TO HIS EARTH."
Dr. Hamey, son of Baldwin Hamey, M.D., whose monument is in
5 Church of Allhallows Barking, lived at Little Chelsea, having moved
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there probably after the loss of his library in the great fire of London. He
was a great benefactor to the Royal College of Physicians, where there is
still some oak panelling adorned with his arms. The College possesses his
bust, and a portrait by Snelling, while another portrait (a copy of a painting
by Vandyck) is now in the Bodleian Picture Gallery.
25. RALPH PALMER, 1715 : ALICE PALMER, 1708.
This is a smaller but similar tablet to that of Dr. Hamey, placed just
beneath his and ingeniously contrived, both by the arrangement of two
medallions of arms and the curving lines of the inscription, to appear a
pendant of the upper tablet.
The inscription runs :
To the Memory of RALPI/ PALMER of Little Chelsea Esqr and ALICE
his wife. He was a near Relation to Dr HAMEY and after his example
A kind Benefactor to this Church. He died Feb ift 1715 aged 80
Years fhe the 14th Sep' 1708 Aged 75
and were here Interr'd.
Arms : (a) Quarterly I & 4, argent, 3 palmers' staves sable (Palmer) ;
2, argent, a fess gules between a demi-lion gules in chief, and 3 molets of six
points azure in base (Oyles). 3 Hamey, as above.
(b) Gules, a cheveron argent between three boars' heads erased argent.
Ralph Palmer was the son of another Ralph Palmer, whose mother
was Dr. Hamey's only sister, and who left a MS. memoir of the doctor,
which is preserved at the Royal College of Physicians. Many interesting Palmer.
details concerning the Palmer family have been recorded by Mr. Randall
Davies from the Verney papers at Claydon House.*
A small brass plate beneath this tablet records that Dr. Hamey's
monument was restored in 1880 by the Royal College of Physicians " in
grateful remembrance of their munificent benefactor."
Chancel. South Wall.
26. JANE RUSH, 1815.
Inscription tablet of white marble flanked by small columns of black
marble, with moulded cornice and base and a semi-circular head.
27. ELIZABETH (MAYERNE) DE CAUMONT, MARCHIONESS
DE CUGNAC, 1653.
The lower part only of this monument remains — the inscription slab
of black marble flanked by two plain panels, and the moulded ledge, below
* Chelsea Old Church, pp. 206-214.
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which is a winged cherub's head and scrollwork, all in white marble. It
bears the following inscription :
I). O. M. S.
ELIZABETHS EQVITIS THEODORI
DE MAYERNE, BARONIS ALBON^E
FILIJE, PETRI DE CAVMONT MAR-
CHIONIS DE CvGNAC (PATRE HEN-
RICO DE CAVMONT MARCHIONE DE
CASTELNAVT & AvO lACOBO NONPAR
DE CAVMONT DVCE DE LA FORCE PRIMO
FRANCIS MARESCALLO REGIORVM
EXERCITVVM LONGVM IMPERATORE
FORTISSIMO, FORTVNATISSIMO INVIO
TISSIMO, NATl) VXORI DVLSISSIM^
LECTISSIM^E CHARISSIMJE . XVIT"
POST NVPTIAS MENSE ACERBO EREPT-?E
FATO, CONIVNX IN AMORIS INCONCVSSI,
& IRRVPT/E FIDEI MONIMENTVM
MCERENS POSVIT
OBIIT X°IVLII MDCLIII IN PAGO CHELSEY
IVXTA LoNDINVM
VlXIT ANNOS XX MENSES VI DIES III
RESVRGET.
IYN BEU
Bowack* states that the monument bore " the arms ot the Mareschal de la
Force and Sir Theo. Mayerne quarter'd together," but these have dis-
appeared.
Sir Theodore Mayerne lived for many years at what was afterwards
Lindsey House.t
28. JOHN BEECH, 1836: SARAH BEECH, 1839.
A white marble tablet with cornice, on a black background with
pedimental head and shaped outline below.
29. SIR THOMAS MORE, 1532.
This now consists of a very low altar tomb with moulded cover-stone
and base, under a four-centred moulded arch, supporting a canopy with its
soffit panelled with tracery. Octagonal buttresses, banded with a moulding
half-way up the shaft, occur on each side and terminate in shields at the level
of the moulded cornice. A third shield is in the centre of the cornice, and
above it is Sir Thomas More's crest — a Moor's head. The spandrels of the
arch are carved with fruit and leaf, and each bears a further shield. The
cornice has a continuous line of cresting carved with foliage. The whole of
* Antiquities of Middlesex, p. 3.
t Survey of London, Vol. IV, Chelsea, Pt. II, p. ?S.
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the back of the recess from the springing of the arch down to the base of
the arch mouldings is occupied by a large marble slab which bears the in-
scription composed by More, and originally cut in his own lifetime. Above
the marble is the date 1532. It is probable that no part of the original
tomb remains other than the inscription slab, the lettering of which has been
recut, and even this is doubtful, since Aubrey states in his Lives of Eminent
Men* that More's monument " being worn by time, about 1644, Sir John
Lawrence of Chelsey erected to his memory a handsome inscription of
marble." The whole monument was " restored," that is to say remade,
by Mr. J. Faulkner, statuary of Chelsea, in 1833, as recorded on a small
brass plate fixed to the plinth. An account of the restoration appears in
the Gentleman's Magazine for December, 1833.
The inscription at the present time is as follows :
THOMAS MORVS VRBE T.ONDINENSI FAMILIA NON CELEBRI SED HONESTA
NATVS IN LITERIS VTCVNQ | VERSATVS ; QVVM ET CAVSAS ALIQVOT ANNOS
JVVENIS EGISSET IN FORO ET IN VRBE SVA PRO SHIREVO IVS | DIXISSET : AB
INVICTISSIMO REGE HENRICO OCTAVO (CVI VNI RfiGVM OMNIVM GLORIA PRIVS
INAVDITA CONTIGIT VT FIDEI DEFENSOR QVALEM ET GLADIO SE ET CALAMO
VERE PR^STITIT. MERITO VOCARETVR) | ADSCITVS IN AVLAM EST, DELECTVSQ :
IN CONSILIVM ET CREATVS EQVES, PROQV^STOR PRIMV, POST CANCELLARIVS |
LANCASTRI^; TANDEM ANGLIC MIRO PRINCIPIS FAVORE FACTVS EST SED
INTERIM IN PVBLICO REGNI | SENATV LECTVS EST ORATOR POPVLI, PRjETEREA
LEGATVS REGIS NONNVMQVA FVIT, ALIAS ALIBI, POSTREMO | VERO CAMERACI
COMES ET COLLEGA IVNCTVS PRINCIPE LEGATIONIS, CvTHBERTO TvNSTALLO
TVM | LONDINENSI, MOX DvNELMENSI EpISCOPO, QVO VIRO VIX HABET ORBIS
HODIE QVICQVAM ERVDITIVS, PRVDENTIVS, MELIVS. Isi INTER SVMMOS ORBIS
CHRISTIANI MONARCHAS RVRSVS REFECTA FOEDERA, REDDITAMQ ; MVNDO | DIV
DESIDERATAM PACEM ET L^TISSIMVS VIDIT ET LEGATVS INTERFVIT
" QVAM SVPERI PACEM FIRMENT FAXINTQ PERENNEM "
IN HOC OFFICIORVM VEL HONORVM CVRSV, QVV.M ITA VERSARETVR VT NEQ J
PRINCEPS OPTIMVS OPERAM | EJVS IMPROBARET NEQ : NOBILIBVS ESSET INVISVS,
NEC INIVCVNDVS POPVLO, FVRIBVS AVTEM ET HOMICIDIS
MOLESTVS. PATER EJVS TANDEM IOHANNES MORVS EQV^S ET IN EVM JVDICVM
ORDINEM I A PRINCIPE COOPTATVS QVI REGIVS CONFESSVS VOCATVR ; HOMO
CIVILIS, SVAVIS, INNOCENS, MITIS, MISERICORS, AEQVVS ET INTEGER, ANNIS
QVIDEM GRAVIS, SED CORPORE PLVSQVAM PRO jETATE VIVIDO. POSTQVAM | EO
PRODVCTAM SIBI VITAM VIDIT, VT FILIVM VIDERIT ANGLIC CANCELLARIVM,
SATIS IN TERRA JAM | SE MORATVM RATVS, LIBENS EMIGRAVIT IN CoELVM AT
FILIVS, DEFVNCTO PATRE, CVI QVAMDIU | SVPERARAT COMPARATVS ET IVVENIS
VOCARI CONSVEVERAT, ET IPSE QVOQ : SIBI VIDEBATVR, AMISSVM IAM PATREM
REQVIRENS ET ^DITOS EX SE LIBEROS QVATVOR AC NEPOTES VNDECIM | RESPICIENS
APVD ANIMVM SVVM CAEPIT PERSENESCERE. AvXIT HVNC AFFECTVM ANIMI
SVBSECVTA [ STATIM VELVT ADPETENTIS SENI SIGNVM, PECTORIS VALITVDO
DETERIOR. ITAQ : MORTALIVM | HARVM RERVM SATVR, QVAM REM A PVERO
* Vol. II, P. 463.
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IM Nl SEMPER OPTAVERAT, VT VLTIMOS ALIQVOT VIT^E | *VJE ANNOS OBTINERET
KOS, QVIBVS HVJVS VIT^E NEGOTIIS PAVLATIM SE SEDVCENS FVTVR/E POSSIT |
IMMORTALITATEM MKDITARI, KAM REM TANDEM (SI CJEPTIS ANNVAT UEVS)
. rusiMi PRINCIPIS | INCOMPARABILI BENEFICIO, RESIGNATIS HONORI-
IMPETRAVIT : ATQ : HOC SEPVLCHRVM SIBI, QVOD | MORTIS EVM NVMQVAM
CESS'ANTIS ADREPERE QVOTIDIE COMMONEFACERET, TRANSLATE HVC PRIORIS |
•IS OSSIBVS EXTRVENDVM CVRAVIT. QvOD NE SVPERSTES FRVSTRA SIBI FECERIT,
| INGRVENTEM TREPIDVS MORTEM, HORREAT, SED DESIDERIO CHRISTI LIBENS
OPPETAT, MORTEMQ : | VT SIBI NON OMNINO MORTEM, SED IANVAM V1T1E
LlORIS INVENIAT PRECIBVS EVM PUS | LECTOR OPTIME SPIRANTEM PR^ECOR,
DEFVNCTVMQ I PROSEQVERE.
Chara Thomae jacet hie loanna Vxorcula Mori
Qui tumulum Aliciae hunc deftino : quiq : mihi
Vna mihi dedit hoc coniuncta virentibvs annis
Me vocet vt puer et trina puella patrem.
Altera priuignis (quae gloria rara ./Vovercae eft)
Tarn pia quam gnatis vix fuit vlla svis,
Altera fie mecum vixit, fie altera viuit
Charior insertum eft haec fit an ilia fuit.
O ! fimul, o ! luncti poteramus viuere nos tres
Quam bene, fi fatum, religioq : sinant.
At fociet tumulus, fociet nos, obfecro coelum
Sic Mors, non potuit quod dare vita, dabit.
The blank space in the inscription marks the position of the words
" Hereticisque " in More's original draft, and Mr. Randall Davies sees in
their omission a humorous concession to Erasmus, who erased the words
when More sent the inscription to him for his approval. This may be so
if they were omitted on the original stone, but against this view it must be
remarked that they are quoted by Weever, who, although he says the inscrip-
tion is " now hardly to be read," gives a version including these words.
Arms : On the centre shield are: Quarterly i & 4, argent, a cheveron
engrailed between 3 moor-cocks sable, crests and legs gules (More) ; 2 & 3,
argent, on a cheveron between 3 unicorns' heads erased sable 3 besants,
impaling ermine, a fess cheeky or and azure (Arden— More's second wife).
The shield to the left bears More (quarterly as above) impaling argent
a fess between three galloping colts sable (Colt — More's first wife). The
shields in the spandrels bear More and Colt respectively.
The monument, as stated in the inscription, was raised by Sir Thomas
More to his first wife, Jane, with the intention that he and his second wife
should lie beneath the same tomb. It is stated by Weever that Sir Thomas
More's body, which after his execution was buried in the Tower, was dis-
interred and brought to Chelsea. Mr. Randall Davies* has carefully examined
* Chelsea Old Church, pp. 101-104. F°r More's connection with Chelsea see Survey of
London, Vol. IV, p. 18.
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the evidence and is of opinion that the removal of the body did not take place,
and that the head of Sir Thomas More, which was exposed on London Bridge,
was placed by his daughter Margaret in the Roper vault at Canterbury.
30. JANE TYNDALE, 1842.
31. CHARLES MILLER, 1817.
The above are two white marble inscription tablets surmounted by
a moulded cornice and funeral urn on a background of black marble with
pediment-shaped head.
Charles Miller was a son of Philip Miller, the curator of the Chelsea
Physic Garden and author of the Gardeners' Dictionary. He was buried
with his father in the churchyard.
32. ELIZABETH STEWART, 1717.
THOMAS STEWART, 1722.
THOMASIN DAMARR, 1758.
This is a finely designed tablet in white marble and consists of an
inscribed slab flanked by two fluted pilasters with foliated capitals and
moulded bases. The slab projects on each side beyond the pilasters, and is
finished by carved consoles. The capitals occupy the height of the frieze
in the horizontal entablature above, and support the cornice over which is
a segmental pediment. A funeral urn and two lamps, all with flames, are
•placed on the pediment, and in front of the tympanum is an achievement
of arms. The pilasters stand on a horizontal scalloped shelf over a carved
apron composed of two console brackets, a scallop shell and a winged cherub.
The inscription reads :
Here lyes the Body of
ELIZABETH STEWART
Wife of THOMAS STEWART of Barbados Stewart.
March*
who departed this life the ig"1
Day of February 1717
Aged 55 years.
Here alfo lyes the Body of the faid
THOMAS STEWART
who departed this life the 2d
Day of November 1722
Aged 56.
Also THOMASIN DAMARR
Daughter of the above
ELIZABETH STEWART
died April 3oth 1758
Aged 70.
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Lawrence.
11- : Or, a fess cheeky argent and azure within a double tressure
counter-flowered gules (Stewart), impaling sable, on a cross between 4 fleurs-
de-lis argent 5 pheons azure. Motto : NOBILIS IRA.
Thomas Stewart was a benefactor to the church, and he lived at
No. 32 Cheyne Row, where Thomasin Damarr lived after him. (See
Survey of London, Vol. IV. Chelsea, Pt. II, p. 67.)
The Lawrence Chapel. East Wall.
33. SIR JOHN LAWRENCE, 1638.
An inscribed slab of touchstone, or black marble, is surrounded by a
wide border of alabaster carved with arabesque ornament ; a circular
column of touch with alabaster base and capital of the Corinthian order
stands on each side, the whole being supported by a moulded ledge of black
marble with a shield of arms in the centre. A simple moulded cornice
rests directly on the capitals and the carved border, but is cut away in the
centre for an achievement of arms, which extends into the tympanum
under the segmental pediment that crowns the design.
The inscription reads :
SACRED TO THE MEMORY
OF S" IOHN LAVRENCE LATE OF IVER IN YE COVNTY
OF BVCKS KNIGHT & BARONET WHO MARRIED GRISSELL
DAVGHTER & COHEIRE OF GERVASE GlBBON OF BENENDEN
IN THE COVNTY OF KENT EsQ BY WHOM HE HAD ISSVE
SEVEN SONS AND FOVRE DAVGHTERS H££ DECEASED THE
xn™ OF NOVEMB". 1638. AGED 50 YEARES.
WHEN BAD MEN DY & TVRNE TO THEIR LAST SLEEPE
\YHAT STIR THE POETS AND INGRAVERS KEEPE
BY A FAIND SKILL, TO PILE THEM VP A NAME
WlTH TERMES OF GOOD & IVST, OVT LASTING FAME
ALAS POORE MEN, SVCH HAVE MOST NEEDE OF STONE
AND EPITAPHS. THE GOOD (INDEED) LACK NONE
THEIRE OWNE TRVE WORTH'S ENOVGH TO GIVE A GLORY
VNTO TH' VNCANKERD RECORDS OF THEIRE STORY
SVCH WAS THE MAN LYES HEERE YET DOTH PERTAKE
OF VERSE AND STONE BVT TIS FOR FASHON SAKE.
Arms : Argent, a ragged cross gules ; on a chief azure, 3 leopards'
heads or (Lawrence). Crest : a demi-turbot.
The shield at the base bears Lawrence impaling sable, a leopard
rampant between 3 scallops or (Gibbon).
For the connection between the Lawrence family and Chelsea, see
Survey of London, Vol. IV, Pt. II, p. 58, and Mr. Randall Davies' Chelsea
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Old Church. Inscriptions commemorating the wife and two children of Sir
John Lawrence are give.n with the floor slabs on pp. 55-6.
Lawrence Chapel. North Wall.
34. THOMAS LAWRENCE, 1593.
A wall tablet with two groups of kneeling figures, each beneath a
semi-circular arch, to the left the effigies of Thomas Lawrence and three
sons, and to the right those of his wife, six daughters, and the figures of two
babies by her side. The arches rest on moulded responds which continue
as a dado across the back of the monument. Over the arches is an architrave
and frieze, but the cornice and sections of the rest of the entablature are
projected forward over three Corinthian columns, which stand free. The
figures are on cushions on a deep moulded ledge, which breaks forward
beneath the columns and over three console brackets. Between these
brackets are two inscription panels. There is a shield of arms in the spandrel
between the two arches and behind the centre column. A large achieve-
ment of arms in a circular medallion of strapwork crowns the tablet, and two
smaller shields on backgrounds of strapwork stand each side upon the
cornice.
The inscription reads :
THE YEARES WHERIN I Liv'o WEARE FIFTY FOWRE
OCTOBER TWENTYE EYGHT DID END MY LIFE
CHILDREN FIVE OF ELEVEN, GoD LEFT IN STORE
SOLE COMFORT OF THEYR MOTHER & MY WIFE.
THE WORLD CAN SAY WHAT I HAVE BIN BEFORE
WHAT I AM NOW EXAMPLES STILL ARE RIFE
THVS THOMAS LARRANCE SPEKES TO TYMES ENSVING
THAT DEATH IS SVRE & TYME IS PAST RENVING.
Arms : The arms above the tablet are those of Lawrence (see No. 33
above) ; to the left and right are the shields of the Merchant Adventurers'
and the Goldsmiths' Companies. The shield in the arch spandrel bears
Lawrence impaling : Quarterly I & 4, Party palewise azure and gules, a
saltire or (Cage) ; 2 & 3, gules, a swan flying argent (Dale).
35. SARA COLVILE, 1631.*
This monument shows a ha'lf-length alabaster figure of the deceased,
attired in grave clothes, and rising from a coffin of black marble. There is
a similar monument to Lady Salter in Iver Church, Bucks (1631),! and
another to Constance Whitney in St. Giles', Cripplegate (1628).
* The date on the monument is a mistake. Mrs. Colvile was buried on l8th April, 1632.
| Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). Report on Buckinghamshire (South),
\ i>l. 1, p. 221.
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At the back of the figure is a shallow semi-circular headed recess
beneath a canopy formed of a pediment and inscribed frieze standing well
above the arch, and brought forward on curved brackets. These brackets
separate the frieze from the architrave, which is thus out of position. A
portion of the latter projects forward where the brackets rest on free Doric
columns, and then the architrave continues (a little above the springing
line) to form the responds of the arch and is carried round the arch itself.
The space between the extrados of the arch and the canopy is filled with
carving representing the trumpet call of the Day of Judgment. The columns
rest on carved brackets above a stone coffin, and are flanked by carved
consoles. The coffin is inscribed and rests on a moulded ledge, beneath
which is the chief inscribed panel of black marble within a shaped frame of
alabaster bearing a shield of arms.
In the pediment and above on each side are shields of arms.
The inscription is as follows :
SACRED
TO YK BLESSED MEMORY OF THAT
VNSTAYNED COPY & RARE EXAMPLE
OF ALL VIRTVE
SARA
WIFE TO RICHARD COLVILE OF NEVTON
IN YE ILE OF ELY IN YE COVNTY OF
CAMBRIDG ESQ DAVGHTER TO
THOMAS LAVRENCE
OF IVER IN YE COVNTY OF BvCKINGHA ESQ
WHO IN Y* 40™ YEARE OF HER
AGE RECEIVED YK GLORIOVS REWARD
OF HER CONSTANT PIETY
BEING Y' HAPPY MOTHER OF 8 SONS
AND 2 DAVGHTERS.
Wonder not (reader) how this stone
Should be Jo /mooth & pure : there's one
That lyes within't, by who/e fayre light
It /nines Jo cleere & looks Jo bright
The Cutters art could only give
A forme unto't : no power to live ;
Nor /hall it ever loo/e this grace
Till /he arise & leave the place ;
For losse of whome yc mournfull Vrne
Shall fire, and to Cynders turne.
SHE DYED Y" I7T" OF APRILL
1631"
* See Note, p. 29.
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This text appears upon the coffin :
AND YOV SHALL KNOW THAT I AM THE
LORD, WHEN I HAVE OPENED YOVR GRAVES
O MY PEOPLE AND BROVGHT YOV VP
OVT OF YOVR SEPVLCHRES. EZEKIEL 37
VERS 1 3
and on the frieze :
FOR THE TRVMPET SHALL BLOWE AND THE DEAD SHALL BE
RAISED VP INCORRVPTIBLE AND WEE SHALL BE CHANGED.
i CORINTHIANS 15
VERS 52
Arms : The shield in the pediment is that of Lawrence (see No. 33),
with crest and ribbon mantling.
The shields above the cornice are both as follows : Quarterly I & 4,
azure, a lion argent, a label of 3 points gules (Colvile) ; 2, argent, 3 chess
rooks gules (Walsingham) ; 3, argent, on a bend gules a besant (Pinchbeck)
impaling Lawrence. Two crests are carved above each shield (a) a lion
(b) a chess rook. A shield at the base gives azure, a lion argent, a label of
5 points gules.
Sarah Colvile was the eldest daughter of Thomas Lawrence (34) and
married Richard Colvile of Newton, in the Isle of Ely.
36. WILLIAM FREND DE MORGAN, 1917.
TO THE MEMORY OF
WILLIAM FREND DE MORGAN
ARTIST POTTER INVENTOR NOVELIST
BORN l6TH NOVEMBER 1839 DIED X5TH JANUARY 1917
WHO DID MUCH OF HIS BEST WORK IN CHEYNE-ROW, THE VALE
AND CHURCH ST CHELSEA WHERE HE DIED
Recreating in Ceramic work upon his own vigorous designs the
colour of the Persian & the lustre of the great Umbrian craftsmen
Enriching literature by his faithful & sympathetic
presentment of homely and wry human character
And beloved by all who knew his breadth of intellectual
interest, his catholic sympathy, genial humour & lambent wit
THIS TABLET IS DEDICATED BY SOME OF HIS
CHELSEA AND PERSONAL FRIENDS
Colvile.
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37 MARGARET HEWITT, 1762. HENRY HEWITT 1770.
A wall tablet in the form of a cartouche fixed on the northern respond
of the arch dividing the Chapel from the nave.
Near the Pulpit
South of the middle Hie
lies the Body of
MARGARET
the beloved Wife of
MR. HENRY HEWITT
of this PARISH
died January 17th 1762
Aged 58
AHo the faid
HENRY HEWITT
who died May 27
1771
Aged 75
38. HON. CONRAD DILLON, 1901.
The More Chapel. East Wall.
39. EDMUND STAUNTON, 1835.
A small stone tablet carved with Gothic ornament.
40. SIR ROBERT STANLEY, 1632.
An elaborate altar tomb of alabaster and black marble, very
beautifully executed, stands before the east window. A shaped sarcophagus
with deep-moulded plinth displays in front three panels framed with
enriched beading, the two side panels bearing inscriptions. Around the
upper member of the moulded cover stone is another inscription giving the
name and date of death, etc. On the sarcophagus stand three richly carved
pedestals bearing elaborate funeral urns, and between these are two alabaster
draped figures which have the appearance of having been an addition to the
original design.
The central pedestal has a portrait bust of Sir Robert Stanley within
an elliptical recess, above a cherub with outstretched wings. The side
pedestals, which are smaller in size, have in similar recesses portraits of his
two infant children, Ferdinando and Henrietta, the latter having a necklace
with the Stanley badge as pendant. This badge, an eagle carrying a child
in its talons, forms the finial to the central urn, only here the eagle is repre-
sented over a nest in which the child lies. The heraldic work on the monu-
ment is very profuse and finely carved. The Stanley shield is shown on the
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body of the central urn ; on each side of its pedestal is a coat with numerous
quarterings described below. On the outer sides of the smaller pedestals
are carved cartouches, enclosing (left) an oval shield bearing Stanley
differenced with a crescent, and (right) a lozenge bearing Stanley impaling
Gorges. One of the figures holds a coronet, and in the other hand a shield
with the Stanley badge, while the other displays a banner bearing the family
quarterings.
The inscriptions are as follows :
TO THE FAIRE MEMORIE OF THE TRVELY HONORABLE
SK ROBERT STANLEY KT OF THE NOBLE ORDER OF
YE BATH AND SEACOND SONNE TO YE RIGHT
HOBLE WILLIAM EARLE OF DARBIE WHOE DECEASED
YE 3 DAY OF JANNARY AN° DN~I 1632
On the left-hand panel :
To say a STANLEY lyes here that a lone
Were Epitaph enough noe Brass noe Stone
Noe glorious Tombe noe Monumentall Hearse
Noe guilded Trophy or lamp labourd verse
Can dignifie this Graue or sett it forth
Like the Immortall fame of his owne Worth
Then reader fixe not here but quitt this Roome
And flye to Abram's bossome theres his Tombe Stanley.
There rests his Soule & for his other parts
They are imbalm'd & lodg'd in good men's harts
A brauer monument of Stone or Lyme
No Arte can rayse for this shall out last tyme.
On the right-hand panel :
To YE LASTINGE MEMORIE OF TWO OF HIS CHILDREN
THAT IS TO SAY FARDINANDO STANLEY HIS SONNE &
HENRITE MARIA STANLEY HIS DAVGHTER WHOE LYE
BVRYED WITH IN THIS HIS SEPVLCHER
The Eagle Death greedie of some good prey
Wth nimble Eyes found where these Infants laye
He truste them in his Tallents and conveyde
There Soules to Heauen & here theire ashes layde
Lett no prophane Hand then these Reliques seuer
But as they lye soe lett them rest for euer.
Arms : On centre urn, argent, on a bend azure 3 stags' heads caboshed
or, a crescent for difference. On the left of the centre pedestal, quarterly
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• it 1 1 : i, Stanley ; 2, or, on a chief indented azure 3 besants (Lathom) ; 3,
gules, 3 men's legs bent at the knee, and joined at the thigh, garnished and
spurred (Isle of Alan) ; 4, cheeky or and azure (Warren) ; 5, gules, z lions
passant argent (Strange of Knockin) ; 6, argent, a fess and quarter gules
(Woodville) ; 7, or, a cross engrailed sable (Moyne) ; 8, azure, a lion argent
(Monhault) ; 9, Barry of ten argent and gules, a lion or crowned gules
(Brandon) ; 10, azure, a millrind cross or (Bruyn) ; II, Lozengy gules and
ermine (Rokeby). On the right of the centre pedestal the same quarterings
as above impaling quarterly of 6 : I & 6, argent, a whirlpool azure (Gorges) ;
2, lozengy or and gules, a cheveron gules (Gorges, ancient) ; 3, argent, on a
chief gules 3 besants (Russell) ; 4, gules, a lion ermine (Old hall) ; 5, argent,
a cheveron sable between 3 caters on the dice (Engloes). The banner shown
in reverse bears the same quarterings as the shield on the left of the
centre pedestal, except that in the coat of Woodville the quarter is not
reversed. The smaller pedestals have left, Stanley ; right, Stanley impaling
Gorges.
Sir Robert Stanley lived at Stanley House, now St. Mark's College.
(See Survey of London, Vol. IV, Chelsea, Pt. II, pp. 43, 44.)
41. CATHERINE COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDON, 1620.
A small rectangular slab of marble, formerly part of the monument
of the Duchess of Northumberland (see No. 45), is now fixed to the east
wall of the More Chapel. The following is the inscription :
CATHERINE
Countefs of Huntington, 2:d
daughter of JOHN late Duke
of Northumberland, dyed
without Yffue, May ye 2:d 1620
Aged 72. & is below Inter'd
by her Mother
More Chapel North Wall.
42. MICHAEL BENTLEY, 1837, and MARIA SUSANNAH his wife,
1828.
JOHN BENTLEY, 1835.
MARY BENTLEY, 1837.
A marble tablet of Gothic design.
43- SIR ARTHUR GORGES, 1625.
. A brass plate, now fixed to the north wall, is engraved with the kneeling
ttigies of Sir Arthur Gorges and his six sons on one side of a small table, and
his wife and five daughters on the other.
This plate belonged to. a monument which, according to Bowack,*
* -Intiquities of Middlesex, p. 9.
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was " rais'd about Four Foot from the Ground," and bore the following
inscription :
In Obitum Illustrissimi Viri Domini
Arthuri Gorges Equitis Aurati Epicedium.
Te deflent, nati, natae, celeberrime conjux,
Te dolet arguta» maesta Caterva Scholse.
Ast Lucanus ait, se vivo, non periturum
Arthurum Gorges, transtulit ipse Deus ;
Aethereas cupiens Arthurus adire per auras,
Et Novus ex ejus Nomine natus adest.
Another brass plate from this monument is also preserved below the
first. It bears an achievement of arms : Quarterly, I, lozengy or and gules,
a cheveron gules (Gorges, ancient) ; 2, argent, a whirlpool azure (Gorges) ;
3, argent, on a chief gules 3 besants (Russell) ; 4, sable, 3 fusils fesswise
between 3 stags'' heads argent (Budockshead), impaling argent, 6 crosslets
fitchy, on a chief azure 2 molets or pierced gules (Clinton). Crest : a grey-
hound's head erased.
Sir Arthur Gorges lived at Gorges House (Milman House). (See
Survey of London, Vol. IV, Chelsea, Pt. II, pp. 22, 45.)
44. ARTHUR GORGES, 1668.
Faulkner * " describes a handsome table monument, with arms and
carving" which was taken down in the year 1815 to make room for pews
(see Plate No. 59), and of this only three inscribed slabs of black marble
remain. The monument stood in the south aisle near Lady Dacre's tomb,
but its covering slab lies now in the pavement in the north-west angle of
the More Chapel. It bears an achievement of arms : Quarterly of 6—
i & 6, Gorges ; 2, Gorges (ancient) ; 3, Russell ; 4, gules, a lion ermine (Old
hall) ; 5, argent, a cheveron sable between three caters-on-the-dice (Engloes).
The two other inscribed slabs are fixed to the north wall of the More
Chapel below the brasses of Sir Arthur Gorges, and bear the following
lines :
Here lyes interred the body of that Generous
and worthy Gen1 Arthur Gorges Esq. eldest
sone of Sr Arthur Gorges Kn' the last surui-
uing branch of the first male line of that Honbl
Family who departed this life the 8th of Appill
1668
He maryed Dame Mary one of the Dau-
ghters and Coheires of Paul Lord Viscount
Banning she first maryed to William Lord
Grandison afterwards to Charles Earle of
Angelesey and thirdly to the sayd deseced
Arthur Gorges whom She suruiued ~~ -
Gorges (ancient).
Chelsea and its Environs, Vol. I, p. 234.
Gorges (modem).
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And departed this life
Lyes here buried with her louing Husband
To WHOS & HIR OM MlMOREY SHE ERECTED THIS ToMBE
Here slecpes and feeles noe preffure of ye stone
he, that had all the Gorges Soules in One
Here the ingenious, valiant Arthur lies
to be bcwaild by Marble and Our eyes
By most beloud. but LOUE cannot retriue
dead frinds, Has power to Kill not make aliue.
Let him rest free from envy, as from paine
when all the Gorges rise heele rise againe
This last rctireing rome his owne doth call
who after death, has that and Heau'n has all
Liue Arthur by the Spirit of thy Fame
Chelsey it self must dy before thy Name.
More Chapel. South Wall.
45. JANE, DUCHESS OF NORTHUMBERLAND, 1555-6-
This tomb is much mutilated, but it must have been a beautiful
example of a Tudor monument, and closely resembles that of Chaucer
in Westminster Abbey, erected by Brigham in 1556. It originally con-
sisted of an altar tomb (which has been removed) within a recess partly
cut into the south wall beneath the easternmost window of the Chapel. The
tomb does not appear to have filled the recess but, like Chaucer's tomb, a
space was left at the west end for the officiating priest. A portion of the
panelled front of the tomb is built into the wall, and a large fragment of the
moulded coping slab of Purbeck is preserved, showing the rough surface
beneath the effigy. This recess has side walls of stone panelled above the
tomb-level, with two rows of three panels arched and cusped. The western
wall stands partly free, and has enough width on its western face for two
panels one above the other. In front of the walls are circular shafts, carved
with a reticulated pattern, having octagonal moulded caps and bases, and the
uiMern shaft stands on an octagonal base taken to the floor-level, with arched
and cusped panels on each face. The cap and base mouldings are carried
along the wing and back walls. The recess is covered by a flat slab of stone,
the soffit of which is hollowed and carved with a representation of four bays
of fan-traceried vaulting, each bay having formerly had a pendant in the
centre. The whole of the front part of the canopy has disappeared,
but is represented in the interesting drawing from the Lansdowne
MSS. at the British Museum, reproduced on Plate 65, and is further
illustrated by an original drawing preserved in Sir Edward Coates' collection
(Plate 64).
The back wall was divided into three portions by miniature buttresses,
the side parts corresponding with one bay of the canopy vault, and the centre
with two. In this middle division is an inscription slab of alabaster, rect-
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angular above, but with shaped angles below and finished with a plain
fillet. The inscription, which is beautiful incised lettering, reads :
HERE LYETH YE RIGHT NOBLE AND EXELLENT PRYNCES
LADY IANE GVYLDEFORD LATE DVCHES OF NORTHV-
BERLAND DAVGHTER AND SOLE hEYRE VNTO YE RIGHT
HONORABLE SR EDWARD GVYLDEFORD KNiGHT LORD
WARDEYN OF Y.E FYVE FORTES YE WHICH Sr EDWARD
WAS SONNE TO YE RIGHT HONORABLE Sr RICHARD
GVYLDEFORD SOME.TYMES KNIGHT AND COMPA-
NION OF YE MOST NOBLE ORDRE OF YE GARTOR AND
THE SAID DVCHES WAS WYFE TO THE RicHT HiGH
AND MiGHTY PRiNCE IOHN DVDLEY LATE DVKE
OF NORTHVBERLAND BY WHO1SE SHE HAD YSSEW
xiii cmLDREN THAT is TO WETE viii SONNES AND
V DAWGHTERS AND AFTER SHE HAD LYVED YERES
XLvi SHE DEPARTED THIS TRANsiTORY WORLD AT
HER MANER OF CHELSE YE XXH DAYE OF IANVARY iN
YF SECOND YERE OF YE REiGNE OF OWR SO-
VEREYNE LADY QVENE MARY THE
FIRST AND IN A° MDLV ON
WHOSE SOVLE IESV HAVE MRCY
•
Over the inscription is a circular brass plate engraved with the arms
of Sir Edward Guildford within the Garter : Quarterly I & 4, or, a saltire
between 4 martlets sable (Guildford) ; 2 & 3, argent, a bend engrailed gules
and a chief sable (Halden). To the left of the inscription is another shield
on a brass plate bearing Guildford and Halden quarterly impaling quarterly.
I, argent, a fess dancetty sable (West) ; 2, quarterly i. & iv., gules, a lion
within an orle of crosslets fitchy argent (la Warr), ii. & iii., azure, 3 leopards'
heads jessant-de-lis argent (Cantelupe) ; 3, barry or and azure, a chief paly
and quarters gyronny, with an inescutcheon argent (Mortimer). 4 gules, 3
bendlets enhanced or (Grelle).
To the right of the inscription is the matrix of a lozenge-shaped
shield, which is shown on a drawing in the Chelsea Public Library to have
contained the arms of the Duchess. For the shields formerly on the canopy,
see the reproduction from the Lansdowne MSS. (Plate 65).
In the left-hand compartment of the back of the monument is the
matrix of a brass which originally bore the kneeling effigies of Lady Jane's
sons. The ribbon on which their names are inscribed in black letter alone
remains ; it runs as follows, beginning with the youngest :
Charles, Harry, Gilford, Robert, Ambrose, John, Thomas & Harry.
The right-hand compartment still retains a brass bearing the kneeling
figures of the Duchess and her five daughters, with their names inscribed
on a ribbon above :
Guildford.
Mary, M'garet, Katerin, Kat'yn, Temperanes.
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The Duchess is attired in a mantle bearing her arms in enamel :
quarterly of 6 : I, Guildford quartering Halden ; 2, West; 3, Le Warr ;
4, Cantt-lupe ; 5, Mortimer ; 6, Grcllc.
John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, received the grant of
Henry VIII's Manor House in 1553,* but he was executed the same year
in consequence of his attempt to place Lady Jane Grey and his son Guildford
<>n the throne. The Duchess lived on at the manor house until her death in
1555-6. Of her children, Harry lost his life at the siege of Boulogne, and
the younger Harry at St. Quentin ; John became Lord Lisle and Earl of
Warwick, and died at Penshurst 1554; Ambrose became Earl of Warwick
and lies buried in the Beauchamp Chapel, Warwick, where also lies Robert,
created Earl of Leicester, Queen Elizabeth's favourite ; Mary married Sir
Henry Sidney and became the mother of Sir Philip Sidney ; Catherine
married the Earl of Huntingdon, and her memorial in Chelsea Church has
been described above (No. 41).
46. SIR WILLIAM MILMAN, 1713.
A tablet of white marble in the form of a cartouche draped and with
three winged cherubs, one on each side and one at the base. The upper
part is formed of an excellent achievement of arms surmounted by a small
iuneral urn.
The inscription is as follows :
D. O. M
et
Memoriae
GULIELMI MILMAN Equitis Aurati
de Interiori Templo LONDINI
Juris-C1'.
Qui Obijt Chelfeiae Febr. 3.
Anno jEtatis 64
et Reparatse Salutis 1713.
Pofuit Mceftifsima Coniux
E. M.
Arms: Azure, 3 sinister gauntlets argent (Milman), impaling sable,
a cheveron between 3 boys' heads with adders about their necks (Vaughan).
In the pavement to the north-east of the Dacre monument in the
s a black marble leger stone with a medallion of the above arms in the
upper part, and the following inscription below :
Here Lyeth
The Body of S" WILLIAM MILMAN KT
Barijter at Law
of the Inner Temple
LONDON
• Survey of London, Vol. II, Chelsea, Pt. I, p. 72.
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who Died at his Houfe in CHELSEA
Febry ye 3d in the 64th Year of his Age
Annoque Dom 1713.
Alfo the Remains of
WILLIAM MILES Efq'
Uncle to Lady MlLMAN
Who departed this life Jany 25th 1802.
Aged 76 years.
Sir William Milman lived at Milman House (formerly Gorges House),
from which Milman Street is named. (See Survey of London, Vol. IV,
Chelsea, Ft. II, p. 45.)
47. WILLIAM HART, 1785, and others (see inscription).
A plain rectangular tablet of white marble with moulded cornice
and two small brackets, on a background of grey marble. The inscription
runs :
Near this Place are depofited the Remains
of WILLIAM HART Efqr of Stapleton, in the County of Gloucefter
Father in Law to Sir FRANCIS MlLMAN Bar'
who departed this Life 13th January 1785. aged 85 Years
Alfo the Remains of GEORGE HART Efq'
who died 19th September 1791. aged 86 Years
Alfo the Remains of JOHN DYER MlLMAN
who died 6th December 1786. aged 2 Years and 10 Months
And FRANCES SOPHIA MlLMAN died 1 1* Decr 1786. aged 1 1 Months
And CHARLES DYER MILMAN died 25* Auguft 1790. aged 7 Months
All three Children of Sir FRANCIS MlLMAN Bar' and Lady MlLMAN
Daughter of the above named WILLIAM HART Efqr.
48. HENRY JAMES, 1916.
A rectangular marble tablet with black rim inscribed :
IN MEMORY of
HENRY JAMES O:M.
NOVELIST
BORN IN NEW YORK 1843 : DIED IN
CHELSEA 1916 : LOVER AND INTER-
PRETER OF THE FINE AMENITIES
OF BRAVE DECISIONS & GENEROVS
LOYALTIES : A RESIDENT OF THIS
PARISH WHO RENOUNCED A
CHERISHED CITIZENSHIP TO GIVK
HIS ALLEGIANCE TO ENGLAND IN
THE Ist YEAR OF THE GREAT WAR.
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49. I'.U I, HF.DFORD, 1871.
50. A modern marble tablet with curved head and a shield of arms :
gyronny argent and gules with an inescutcheon or, commemorating
PETER ELERS, 1753.
(il.ORGE ELERS, 1784.
CARFW ELERS, 1821.
WILLIAM ELERS, 1888.
\YM SHRl'BB ELERS, 1900.
51. CATHERINE MAHON, 1822.
Nave, East Wall
52. HENRY POWELL, 1752: ELIZABETH POWELL, 1726.
A marble tablet in the form of a cartouche with an achievement of
arms above and a winged cherub at base, fixed to the west face of the northern
pier of the chancel arch.
The inscription runs :
HENRY POWELL
Departed this Life December yc 8th 1752. Aged 77
and is here Interr'd in hopes, of a bleffed Refurrection ;
near the remains of ELIZABETH his Wife, who was
A moft Excellent Woman : and Died April 28tn 1726
He was a Compleat Gentleman and a Good Chriftian
He was likewife, BlefPd with Power and Wealth
which He chiefly exerted ; in the Service of
the Widow and Fatherlefs :
And in a long attendance on
his Sovereign : He behaved with
the highef t Honour and Fidelity ;
and never abufed the
Great Confidence repofe'd in him.
In Gratitude to the Beft of Parents
this Monument was Erected
By their Eldeft Daughter,
ELIZABETH POWELL
who died unmarried
April 23d 1774 Aged 62
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Arms : Quarterly I & 4, gules, a lion looking back or; 2 & 3 argent,
3 boars' heads sable (Powell of Shropshire). Impaling argent, a fess between
3 stars azure.
A leger stone in the chancel is inscribed :
ELIZABETH POWELL Died
the 28th of April 1726 PotoeUf
Alfo
HENRY POWELL Esq' hufband
of the above ELIZABETH
Died December the 8th 1752
Aged 77.
53. MARIANNE, GEORGE AND JOHN DRUMMOND, 1795-6.
An elliptical tablet of marble, with a knot of ribbon above, is placed
below the last monument and bears the following inscription :
In Memory of
MARIANNE aged four Months.
GEORGE aged fix Years and
JOHN aged three Years
the beloved and lovely offspring of
GEORGE HAY DRUMMOND. A.M.
Prebendary of York, and
ELIZABETH MARGARET his Wife
whofe Spirits returned unto God
in the Months of November and
December 1795, and January 1796
and whofe mortal Remains repofe together
within twelve feet South of this Pillar.
This Tablet is erected
by their affectionate Parents
forrowful yet always rejoicing
that of Such is
the Kingdom of
Heaven.
54. REGINALD JOHN NEILD, 1903.
A small cartouche of white marble to Reginald Neild, who died at
Lindsey House, 1903.
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•h Wall.
55. MARY READ, 1792: EDWARD READ, 1812.
A tablet of white marble with fluted pilasters at each side and a
moulded string above and below. Small brackets below the pilasters and
finials above bear oval rosettes. Above and beneath the tablet is a back-
ground of black marble with shaped outline, and against the upper part is
a funeral urn in relief in white marble.
The inscription runs :
Near this Place lies Interred
MARY late Wife of
EDWARD READ Esquire
who died the 21" of January 1792
Aged 57 Years
Alfo the said EDWARD READ
who died the 2nd of April, 1812
Aged 82 Years.
Edward Read is given in the Rate Books as residing at No. 3, Swan
Walk, 1777-1794. (See Survey of London, Vol. IV, Chelsea, Pt. I, p. 14.)
56. JAMES BUCK, 1680.
This tablet has a semi-circular headed inscription-panel surrounded
by a moulded architrave, with mitred ears carved with foliated ornament.
Above is a curved pediment, beneath the cornice of which is a shield of
arms. The horizontal cornice breaks forward on each side over console-
shaped brackets which are repeated against the wall, and beneath these are
two plain pilasters. The lower part of the monument consists of a bold
moulded shelf with scalloped fluting, below which is a double festoon of
drapery and an underpiece of scrollwork and foliage.
The inscription reads ;
Here underneath
lieth what was Mortal
of IAMES BUCK Esq. who
departed this life Dec. 24 A.D.
1680 in his Climacterical, viz LXIIId year of
his Age. He was Son to MATTHEW
BUCK Esq of WINTERBOUR in y< Cou
nty of GLOUCESTER by MARY his wife
daughter of Sr PETER BUCK of ROCH
ESTER in KENT Kn». He had to wife
ELIZABETH daughter of HUMPHREY
ROGERS of RICHMOND in y County
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of SURRY Esq by whom he had If sue_
five Sons & one Daughter ; TAMES, FRACIS
ELIZABETH, CHARLES, IOHN, & RICH=
=ARD ; whereof yc four first are still Survi-
ving His Wife ELIZABETH having
lived 20 years married died Nov. 23. 1674
in ye 5Oth year of her Age & lies Buried in
BARKHAMSTEAD Church in HART =
= FORDSHIRE with her Ancestors
JACOBUS F. Optimo fcf Optima
Parenti M.P.
Arms : Party fesswise nebuly argent and sable, 3 bucks' attires counter-
coloured, on a quarter azure a cup or (Buck), impaling argent, a cheveron
between 3 bucks sable (Rogers).
57. LADY JANE CHEYNE, 1669.
CHARLES CHEYNE VISCOUNT NEWHAVEN, 1698.
This lofty and beautiful monument of coloured marble, containing
a recumbent effigy of Lady Jane Cheyne, was made in Rome and designed
by Paolo Bernini, nephew of the famous architect. Mr. Randall Davies
has printed* a series of very interesting letters written from Rome by
Edward Altham, who had been commissioned by Edmund Chaloner, Lord
Cheyne's kinsman, to arrange the execution of the monument.
The monument is in the form of a finely proportioned architectural
apparel to the recess which encloses a sarcophagus qf black marble, supporting
the reclining figure of Lady Cheyne, who is represented as reading a book
while she rests with one arm on a cushion. She is attired in a long, flowing
robe, while her coronet rests near her feet. The sarcophagus stands on
shaped and panelled legs on a panelled plinth which also supports the super-
structure. This is slightly concave in plan, and is formed of two long
panelled supports, one each side of the recess, for the horizontal entablature
above. In front of these stand two columns, on pedestals projecting from
the plinth, with beautifully carved Corinthian capitals, over which the
entablature breaks forward and supports a curved pediment. The bed
mouldings in the curved cornice are brought forward over the columns, and
also in the centre, where they form a kind of key block or corbel to correct
the weakness of the arch. The tympanum is carved with conventional
fruit and foliage, and above the monument is a metal cross and two hearts,
out of which issue flames. The monument is protected by beautiful railings
of wrought iron, of evident English make. The standards at the angles and
in the centre are of spiral form, and have spear heads with hammered scrolls.
The Latin inscription, is cut in a panel at the back of the recess over
the figure, and is as follows :
Buck.
Chelsea Old Church, pp. 58-65.
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Che\ne.
M. S.
Pientifsimae & Sanctifsimse Heroinas
Nee tarn Avitis Imaginibus quam Proprijs
Virtutibus Inlustris ;
Dominse IANJE CHEYNE
Exc-1 Dni GVILIELMI Ducis de Novo Castro
Filitf ex tribus Natu maximas
CAROLI CHEYNE Armigeri,
Conjugis Dilectifsimae Desideratifsimae.
De qua nihil unquam doluit nisi de Mortua
Ex qua tres Optimae Spei Liberos Sufcepit
ELIZABETHAM, GVILIELMVM
& Venustam Deo CATHARINAM
Intra paucos a morte Matris menfes
Fato functam
Inter csetera Charitatis Opera
Tectum huic Ecclesice
Densis trabium ordinibus compingendum
(quod iam, Deo gratia, effectum est)
Paullo ante mortem, tanqua ex Legato Dedit
Vitse Curriculum qua Pietate & Patientia
Transegerat Peregit VIII0 Eid Octob.
Salutis MDCLXIX
Anno jEtatis, XLVIII
Conjugij XV.
Quo toto prope tempore hanc Ficiniam prsesens.
• Nobilitavit Beavit
lacet, una cum Filiola CATHARINA
Intra Canttllos, in medio Conditorio Sepulta
Sub ipsa Sacra Mensa
*
On the side of the sarcophagus itself is the following inscription to
Lord Cheyne :
M. S.
CAROLI CHEYNE
Vicscomitis de Newhaven in Regno Scotias et
hujus Mancrij de Chelfey Domini Qui hoc
Monimentu, in Memoria Done IAN/E Conjugis sus
Ima: dilectifsimae Annos abhinc Viginti et Novem
extruxerat Ac Nunc demum Ipfe
(heu nimium cito) demortuus
Et juxta Conjugem suam (pro ut teftamento
suo defignaverat) in eodem Conditorio
Sepultus Una cum ilia Beatam Refurrectionem
oraeftolatur Obij 3omo die lunij
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Anno
1698
78.
CHELSEA
Lord and Lady Cheyne lived in Henry VIIPs manor house (see
Survey of London, Vol. II, Chelsea, Part I, p. 73), and their memory is cherished
in Chelsea, their name being commemorated in Cheyne Walk. Lady Jane
was the daughter of William, Duke of Newcastle, and was a woman of
many great and noble qualities, whose life through the Civil War was an
eventful one before she married Charles Cheyne and came to Chelsea. She
purchased the manor, and was a great benefactor to the village, bearing
part of the expense of rebuilding the church, the roof of which is mentioned
as her gift in her memorial inscription. Dr. Littleton preached an eloquent
sermon at her funeral, and this is printed, with his other sermons.
The Cheyne vault was under the Communion Table in the chancel,
and was approached by a stair under a stone at the foot of the chancel steps.
Faulkner prints a Latin inscription* on the entrance to the vault, and
another slab of polished black marble, which was apparently in this position,
is now at the west end of the north aisle.
58. RICHARD GVILFORD, 1680.
A wall tablet of white marble in the form of a cartouche with small
funeral urn above and a winged cherub below. The ornament of the upper
part is composed of drapery, and the lower part is carved with sprays of bay
and palm leaves.
The inscription runs :
Here lye the Bodies of
RICHARD GUILFORD
and of his two Wives who
dyed before him Abigail
Daughter of lohn Wood
of the County of York by whom
he had a Daughter ludeth
and Elizabeth Daughter of Roger
Friend of Lambeth in Surrey by whom
he had two Daughters Anne and Abigal
and a Son Charles. He gave to this Parifh
For ever the Yearly Summ of ten Pounds
to be diftributed on the 5th of Decemb1"
the Day of his Wedding with
the aforefaid Elizabeth
and dyed 16 Nov: 1 680 aged 66 years
Abigail his youngeft Daughter
Wife of George Bifhop of Bath
and Wells and Executrix to
her Brother Charles
Guilford Erected
this Monument
An : 1709.
* Chelsea and its Environs, Vol. I, p. 218.
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59. HFNRY RAPF.K, 1717: KATHERINE RAPER, 1735.
iall tablet shaped like the end of a sarcophagus.
The inscription reads :
NEAR THIS SPOT
ARE DEPOSITED THE REMAINS OF
HENRY RAPER, ESQ"
BORN 1 6th OCTOBER IJIJ '•
DIED MAY IIth 1789,
AND OF HIS WIFE,
KATHERINE RAPER
BORN 9th JANUARY IJ35 ;
DIED NOV." 12™ 1823
TO WHOSE MEMORY
THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY
FILIAL RESPECT
AND AFFECTION
Henry Raper lived at No. 32 Cheyne Row from 1775 until some time
after 1783, though whether until his death is uncertain owing to a break
in the Rate Book records for these years. Catherine Raper lived at 25 Cheyne
Walk from 1790 until 1802. (See Survey of London, Vol. II, Chelsea, Ft. I,
p. 74, and Vol. IV, Chelsea, Pt. II, pp. 65, 67.)
60. JENNETT HAMILTON, 1716: ALEXANDER HAMILTON, 1724.
A curiously designed tablet consisting of a moulded shelf supporting
an achievement of arms within a frame of two panelled pilasters bent to an
ogee shape and a small cornice. Beneath the shelf are two brackets and a
shaped apron bearing the following inscription :
Beneath this Monumt lyeth yc Body of IENNETT
The Wife of ALEXANDER HAMILTON of this Parifh Gent :
Who departed this Life ye 9th of Sepf 1716
In y* 54th year of her Age
Here alfo lyeth the Body of the abouenamed
ALEXANDER HAMILTON who died
the 3oth of November, 1724
in the 72d Year of his Age.
The shield bears : Quarterly of four, I and 4, sable, a molet between
three cinquefoils ermine, 2 and 3, sable, a human heart between three
cinquefoils ermine, (for Hamilton) impaling quarterly, I and 4, argent, a
lymphad sable, 2 and 3, or, a lion sable.
Nave. South Wall.
61. GREGORY FIENNES LORD DACRE, and ANNE LADY DACRE,
1 594-5-
A large monument of marble, consisting of an altar tomb, panelled
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and moulded, bearing the recumbent effigies in alabaster of Lord and Lady
Dacre. He is in armour, and they both rest their feet on a dog. Above the
figures is a deep semi-circular arch, the soffit of which is coffered and adorned
with floral bosses. The moulding of the responds is carried round the sides
and back of the recess above a panelled dado, the side panels being carved
with strapwork, while the back is divided into five panels — a plain one in the
centre, two narrow panels of carved ornament and an inscribed panel at each
end. The space between the arch and the dado has a large inscribed panel
surrounded by a frame of strapwork and the usual ornament of the period.
Similar ornament adorns the pilasters flanking the recess, in fpont of which are
columns with Corinthian capitals and pedestals, which stand at each end of
the projecting altar tomb. Above the arch and columns is a horizontal
entablature which breaks forward over the latter and over the keystone,
which is carved with a winged cherub. The cornice is formed of the convex
curve, with deep projection, which was in general use at the period, and
above is a moulded tabling, forming the base of two large obelisks, one over
each column, between which runs a balustrade. Above this is an achieve-
ment of arms with supporters within a frame composed of pilasters covered
with carved work, and carrying an entablature, over which are a winged skull,
an hour glass, and a balance. A shield of arms within a circular frame of
strapwork stands on each side of the centre piece above the balustrade. (See
also under Helm, p. 10.)
A miniature tomb with the recumbent effigy of an infant lies next
the altar tomb. The monument is enclosed by beautiful railings with three
spiral standards and lily-shaped finials, bound together by an enriched rail
fitted with floral studs.
Inscriptions.
In the back of the tomb over the effigies :
IN OBITVM NOBILISSIMORVM
CONIVGVM GREGORII. T>.
DACRES ET ANN.E VXORIS
QVOS ARDENS COPVLAVIT AMOR IVVENILIBVS ANNIS
ABSTVLIT ATRA DIES, MORS INOPINA RAPIT
ILLE PRIOR FATIS DACRORVM NOBILE GERMEN
OCCIDIT : IN MORBVM AT INCIDIT ILLA PRIV
QVJE LANGVESCENDO MISERY PR^TEDIA VIT-flE Sackville.
SENSIT, TAM DVLCI CONIVGE CASSA svo.
VT TENERI COPDIS CONCORDIA IVNXERAT AMBOS
SlC IDEM AMBORVM CONTEGIT OSSA LOCVS
QVOS IVNGIT TVMVLVS CONIVNGVNT CCELICA TECTA
VT TENEANT CCELVM QVI TENVERE FIDEM
The final s in PRIVS in the fourth line is omitted. The Q in QVOS and
QVO in the last two lines appear as o in the inscription.
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Dacrc.
The two inscribed panels at the back of the effigies read :
NOHILIS ISTE VIR OBIIT 2$
SEPTEMB. 1594
and
NOBILIS ISTA MVLIER OBIIT
14 MAII 1595
The centre panel of the sarcophagus is inscribed as follows :
NOBILIS ANNA IACES PRVDENS SACKVILLIA PROLES
•VlVA TVI DEFLES FVNERA MOESTA VIRI.
NlL MORTALS PLACET, CCELVM TVA PECTORA SPIRANT
POSTQ PARCA VIRI CONSCIDIT ATRA DIEM
F^EMINEI LVX CLARA CHORI, PIA, CASTA, PVDICA
l.'.RIS SVBSIDIVM PAVPERIBVSQ. DECVS.
FlDA DEO PERCHARA TVIS, CONSTANSQ DISERTA
VT PATIENS MORBI, SIC PIETATIS AMANS.
() QVOTIES MANIBVS PASSIS AD CVLMINA CCELI
HANC ANIMAM DIXTI, SVSCIPE QVJESO DEVS
MlXS PIA, CCELESTIS PATRICE PERVENIT AD ARC! M,
HlC TVMVLVS CORPVS MENTIS INANE TENET.
Arms : Quarterly of 12 : I, azure, 3 lions or (Fiennes) ; 2, gules, 3
scallops argent (Dacre) ; 3, argent, 3 bars gules, a label azure (Moulton) ; 4,
cheeky or and gules (Vaux) ; 5, azure, sown with fleurs-de-lys and fretty or
(Morville) ; 6, azure, a chief or, 3 cheverons interlaced in base (Fitzhugh) ;
7, Barry of 8 argent and gules, a fleur-de-lys sable (Staveley) ; 8, azure, a bend
between 6 crosslets or (Furneaux) ; 9, Barry argent and azure, on a bend
gules 3 martlets or (Grey) ; 10, vair, a fess gules (Marmion) ; n, or, 3
cheverons gules a chief vair (St. Quintin) ; 12, Barry of 10 or and azure, an
eagle gules (Gernegan). Crest : An eagle's head. Supporters : (dexter) a
wolf-dog argent, collared and chained or, (sinister) a bull, gules collared with
a ducal coronet and chained or. Motto : POVR BIEN DESIRER.
On the left-hand shield are the above 12 quarterings impaling
quarterly or and gules, a bend vair for Sackville. On the right is a shield
bearing Sackville only.
Lord and Lady Dacre lived in the house originally Sir Thomas M ore's
and afterwards known as Beaufort House (see Survey of London, Vol. IV,
Chelsea, Pt. II, p. 18). Lady Dacre founded Emmanuel Hospital, West-
minster, to which charity Chelsea has the privilege of sending two poor
persons as long as the founder's tomb is kept in good order.
62. HUMFREY PESHALL, 1650.
A small brass plate 3^x2^ inches bears an inscription to the
above. Mr. Randall Davies* states that this plate is a forgery, and
* Chfbfa Old Church, p. 231.
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CHELSEA
was probably put up in the Church by the Rev. John Pearsall when he
claimed the Peshall baronetcy on its becoming extinct in 1771. It is not
known why Chelsea Church was selected as the site for the imposture.
63. ANN LOWFEILD, 1720.
A tablet of white marble with shaped head and base, on two small
brackets, with moulded edge.
Inscription :
To the Memory of
M" ANN LOWFEILD
Daughter of THOMAS LOWFEILD Efq'
late of this Parifh
She departed this life
the 5th of Decembr 1720
And according to her own defire
lies buried clofe on the outfide
of this Wall.
Arms : On a lozenge, six pieces vert and or, a bull's head sable and
2 garbs on the or.
" Mrs." Lowfeild lived at 18 Cheyne Row from 1711 until her death.*
64. JOHN WOOLLEY.
JOHN CORY GRIFFITH.
JOHN WELLS LAMBE.
WILLIAM BRUCE.
A tablet purporting to reproduce the original stone in the church-
yard (now unidentified) commemorating the death of four men drowned
in the Thames on 20 January, 1839.
65. MATTHEW SQUIRE, 1800.
An elliptical tablet of white marble, inscribed as follows :
Near this Spot is Interr'd
the remains of MATTHEW SQUIRE Efq10
Rear Admiral of the Red
of his Majefty's Royal Navy
who departed this Life 22 January 1800
Aged 55 Years
his Virtues are to well known
to be recorded here being sincerely regretted
by all his Friends.
66. MARY BOLNEY, 1716.
A tablet of white marble, with moulded cornice and broken pediment,
* See Survey of London, Vol. II, Chelsea. Pt. I, p. 26 ; also Vol. IV, Chelsea, Pt. II, pp. 63, 65.
D 49
CHELSEA
Bolney.
on a moulded shelf, and two small brackets. The arms which are lying
under the (Jervoise monument are as follows : Sable, a fess or, between 3
•..ins (\Vybarnd), and or, in chief 2 molets and in base a crescent gules
(Bolney), impaling azure, 3 mascles or between 2 unicorns' heads erased sable
(Smith of Yorkshire).
Near this Place Lyes the Body of
MBS MARY BOLNEY Widow, late of Little
Chelsey, Daughter of BARTHOLO* SMITH
Esqr<> of the Soke in Winchester. She was
twice Married, first to JOHN WYBARN D Efqre.
of Hawkwell in Kent by whom she had
2 Sons & 3 Daughters, & afterwards to
GEO BOLNEY of Bolney Esqrc by whom
3 Sons & 6 Daughters, & died in the 88th
Year of her Age Anno Domini 1716. _
67. BENJAMIN DODD, 1796.
Tablet of black marble with moulded cornice of white marble and
two small drops of the same.
The inscription runs :
Sacred to the Memory of
BENJAMIN DODD Efquire
of this Parif h
who died on the ioth of November 1796
Aged 70 years
This was a Man.
68. DAVID HEATLY, 1803.
An elliptical panel of white marble.
Nave. West Wall.
69. ANNE WAKELIN, 1722.
A simple tablet with moulded segmental cornice and key block on a
moulded shelf supported by two brackets, inscribed :
Near this Place
lyeth interr'd the Body
of ANNE WAKELIN (Widow
of THO : \YAKELIN Of York building
in the Liberty of Weftminster
Apothecary] who died the 7th of
Septenv 1722. Anno ^Etat : 44.
5°
CHELSEA
70. WILLIAM DANIEL, 1800.
An elliptical tablet of white marble inscribed :
e
NEAR
the Middle of the South Aifle lies
the REMAINS of
WILLIAM DANIEL Efquire
late a CAPTAIN in the ROYAL NAVY
who died at Chelfoa the 21 ft Day of February
1800
Aged 67 Years
To whofe MEMORY this Stone
is erected by his
CHILDREN
Captain Daniel lived in No. 8, Upper Cheyne Row from 1790-1794 *
71. SYDENHAM TEAST EDWARDS, 1819.
72. JOHN BROWN, 1816.
73. JOHN WILTON, 1835.
74. MARY ANNE ALICE BAYLEY, 1824.
75. ANN CULLIFORD, 1726.
A rectangular tablet of white marble with moulded frame having a
shaped overpiece with scrolls, side console-shaped brackets, and a shield of
arms below between sprays of palm leaves.
The inscription reads :
Near this Place lyes Inter'd
the Body of
MRS ANN CULLIFORD
Wife of Culhf°rd-
Cap* RICHARD CULLIFORD
who Departed this Life
the 8th of 7ber 1726
in the 67th year of
Her Age
Arms : Argent, a fess gules between 3 colts sable, impaling azure, a
lion crowned between three crosslets or.
Commissary Culliford appears in the List of Benefactors to Don
Saltero's Coffee House.f He was buried at Chelsea .on 3rd May, 1738.
* Survey of London, Vol. IV, Chelsea, Pt. II, p. 74.
t Ibid., Vol. II, Chelsea, Pt. I, p. 63.
CHELSEA
Return Wall
76. SARAH COLLINS, 1811.
WILLIAM COLLINS, 1828.
77. MATILDA CHAMBERS, 1813.
78. HENRY COOPER, 1824.
79. ISABEL CLAREMONT, 1824.
Tower. North Wall.
80. WILLIAM MONCRIEFF, 1732.
This tablet over the door to Belfry has the appearance of having
been part of a larger monument, and is inscribed :
Hie est Sepultus
GULIELMUS MONCREIFF
.tfitatis 73
Scotiae olim Pastor Episcopalis
In Academia Sancti Andreas
Humaniorum Literarum Profefsor
Plurimorum luvenum Nobilium
Dum peregre' sunt Profecti
Praeceptor.
Morum Integer,
Linguarum Peritus
Rerum atque Hominum Sciens
Obij' i° Aprilis Anno Domini
1732
81. WILLIAM CLARKSON, 1712.
A simple marble tablet with horizontal cornice and cleft pediment
enclosing a small urn, inscribed as follows :
In the vault under the ftairs that leads
up into ye new Gallery lyeth the body
of MK WILLIAM CLARKSON fon of Mr.
IOHN CLARKSON of this Parifh who
died June the 2Oth 1712
in the 33d year of his Age
In the fame vault lyeth the bodyes
of three of his children viz :
one Daughter & two fons
THEODOSIA born May yc 24th 1704, buried
Augft ye 28th 1704.
ABRAHALL born OctbT ye 26th 1705. buried
Juney' 8th 1708
GILBERT born Augft f V 1709 buried
Sep^y* 1 8th 1710
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CHELSEA
82. HESTER HILL, 1699: THOMAS HILL, 1713.
A marble inscription tablet with panelled pilasters at the sides and a
horizontal entablature with cleft pediment enclosing a small funeral urn ;
supported on a moulded and scalloped ledge with small fluted console
brackets and a winged skull and foliage below.
In the Uault under the ftaires,
that leades up into the new Gallery,
lyeth the body of MRS. HESTER HILL
Wife of MK THOMAS HILL of this Parijh
who dyed Jan: 3oth 1699. in the ^i/l
year of her Age.
In the same Vault lyeth also ye
body of y' above named MR THOMAS HILL .
who dyed Novir y' 3d 1713. in the
75th year of his Age.
Tower. South Wall.
83. ANNA MARIA SUTTON, 1745.
Sacred to the Memory
of
ANNA MARIA POWEL
The late Beloved Wife
of
Cap' DAWLY SUTTON
Who was deliver'd from the Prifon of
the Body the 12th day of November 1745
in the 5oth Year of Her Age
Reader forbear nor Shed One Ufelefs Tear
Her Soul is fled, the Body now lies here
But when Immortal Life it fhall put on
By Pow'r deriv'd from GOD'S Eternal SON
Then Death no more fhall seperate the Pair
But Endlefs joys fhall crown the Waking Fair
Till then Sufpend thy Thoughts of what She is
But Live like Her and Gain Eternal Blifs.
FLOOR SLABS.
In the pavement of the church are slabs bearing the following in-
scriptions, over and above those already noticed in connection with the
wall monuments. Their position is shown by the numbers on the plan
(Plate 15).
In the Chancel.
84. Purbeck slab, showing matrix of brass. (See under Brasses, p. 5.)
85. Purbeck slab, with matrix of brass. (See also under Brasses, p. 6.)
53
CHELSEA
86. IN Memory of .
M[KSl SUSANNA BARKER
(late c f this Parifh)
died October 29th 1793
AGED 72 YEARS
87. Beneath this Stone
lie the Remains of
NICHOLAS RAY Efqr
of this Parifh he died
with a firm reliance
upon the Mercy of
Almighty God the 24th
day of Sept' I788
Aged 72 Years.
88. UNDERNEATH THIS STONE
LYETH INTR'D THE BODY OF
THOMAS PUTLAND
ESQ" WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
ON THE 14™ OF IULY ANNO DOM
1723 IN THE 72"° YEAR OF His.
AGE
Thos. Putland lived at 2A, Paradise Row (1712-23). (See Survey oj
London, Vol. I, Chelsea, Pt. I., p. 25.)
89. Here lyeth the Body of
HENRY LUSSAN ESQ"
some time One of his Alajesties
Juftices of the Peace for the
County of Monmouth
who departed this Life the 2d day of
February 1750 In the 8oth Year
of his Age
In the Vault beneath this Marble
are deposited the Remains of
MRS CATHERINE HORTON
of this PARISH who departed this Life
On the 15th of January 1782
And was Niece of the above Inscribed
HENRY LUSSAN ESQ
Above the inscription is a coat-of-arms ; now defaced.
54
CHELSEA
S . . .
MR GEORGE
who Departed this life
Nov 4 177 . ,
Aged . .
In the Lawrence Chapel.
91. THE
SACRED TO MEMORY
• OF
THE HONOURABLE DAME GRISEL
RELICT OF THE HONOURABLE S"
IOHN LAURENCE LATE OF IVER IN YE
COUNTY OF BUCKS KNIGHT AND BARONET
SHEE DIED IN HER HOWSE AT CHELSEY
THE l6 OF MARCH IN THE YEERE OF
OVR LORD 1675 AGED EIGHTY YEERES
A FRUITFULL PARENT OF CHILDRENS
CHILDRENS CHILDREN
Chast Prvdent Vertuous all her life
as a right widdow mother wife
loe here shee lyes who was all thi[s]
And more which tongue cannot exp[ress]
92. Sacred to the Memory
of
HENRY LAVRENCE TVRKY MARCHANT
YOUNGEST SONNE OF SR loHN LAVRENCE
KNT & BARONET, WHO DYED IN THE
3OT" YEARE OF HIS- AGE THE I4TH OF
OCTOBER 1667
Heere rests ye weary Marchant having tride
And finding this world's traffick vaine defide
That empty triffle now hes gon to trade
In th' other world for gaines which never fade
Thence yow shall see when He acquits this Vrn
of euerlasting Grawnes A braue returne
the stock of goodnefs hee imbarkd before
Ensures him there an hundred fold And more
55
CHELSEA
,,, In humble Hope of a Blefsed
Rcfurrection
Her lyeth whatfoever
was Mortall of the Excellent
MRS FRANCES LAURENCE
Eminent for her truly Loyall
Principles to the Crown,
And Constancy to the Church
of England in the worft of Times
and for Threescore and ten years
space Allwais a Virgin : She was
Second Daugh" to S« IOHN LAURENCE
of Iver in the County of Bucks
K' and Baronet by Dame GRISSELL
his only Wife
An Ofspring worthy of such Parents
She departed this life at Chelfey
the 28th day of November
Anno Domini 1685
In the Nave (north part}.
01. Here Lyeth the Body
Of IOHN CRAUFORD
EsqT who died Dec ye 19
An : Dom 1720 in the
In the 49th year of his
age
John Crauford, styled by Bowack " one of her Majesties Commis-
sioners, Son to Commissary David Crawford" lived in No. 4, Paradise Row,
and afterwards, from 1714-19, in Ormonde House. (Bee Survey of London,
Vol. II, Chelsea, Pt. I, pp. 24, 26.)
95. Underneath are Interrd
the Remains of ANNE
the Wife of THOS BUBB
of this Parifh Gent :
She departed this Life
the 30 Jan. 1760
Aged 80 Years
Also of THOMAS Husband
of the above ANNE BUBB
who Died Sepr. 25th. 1760
Aged 86
Also ELIZABETH their
Daughter the Beloved
Wife of MR. THO. LINDSAY
Apothy in Weftminfter
who Died April 24th 1769
56 Aged 58
CHELSEA
96. Here lyeth Interd ye Body
. . . ANNE CRESPIN
who departed this life ye 2" day
of July . . . year of her age
... 172 .
. . lieth the . .
MRS ANNE CRESPIN
Mother of the above said and wife
of CAPT DANIEL CRESPIN of this
parish who departed this life the
. . day of May 1750 in the 43rd year
of her age
Here likewise lieth interred
the body of the above named
CAP1 DANIEL CRESPIN
who Departed this life
12th day of June 1743
in the . . Year of his Age.
Mr. Crespin is among the list of Benefactors at Don Saltero's. (See
Survey of London, Vol. II, Chelsea, Pt. I, p. 63.)
97- MRS ELIZABETH THOMPSON
Died 4th April 1796
Aged 56 Years
98. MRS ANN BANKS
late of this Parifh
Died March i : 1759
In the 79tb Year of her Age
Over the inscription is a coat-of-arms bearing on a lozenge within a
circle the following : a cross between four fleur-de-lys. Bantss
99. C. H.
Jany y' 14 ...
100. MRS. MARY ANN HODSDEN.
Obiit 29 Maii 1801
jEtat 58
MR JOHN ELDERTON
late of the City of LONDON
PACKER died March 23rd 1767
in the 4oth Year of his Age
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CHELSEA
101. ... Body . . .
AIK JOHN HUTCHINS
late of this PARISH
Died February 8th 1762
Aged 67 years
Alfo
MRS. ELIZABETH HUTCHINS
Wife of the above
Who Departed this life
Decr 3 : 1762
Aged 64 Years
:'f (centre).
102. Intus hie conquiefcunt
Cineres & Offa SARA LUTTRELL
Memoriae perquam charae
quae Pleuritidis Morbo etiamfi exanimata
Spe tamen Refurrectionis beatae fulcita
Et Chrifto Redemptore freta
Nono die lulij placide emifit Spiritum
Anno Domini MDCCXXII ,/Etatis vero LXIII
NARCISSVM LVTTRELL Armigerum, Maritum
Et Francifcum Filium Unicum moerentes
Et Superftites relinquens
Unde mori moneamur omnes
NARCISSUS LUTTRELL A*
Hydrope- conf ectus
Minimo cum Luctu animam efflavit
XXVI die lunii MDCCXXXII
Anno jEtatis LXXV
.FRANCIS LUTTRELL
ESQR Died June ye 5th 1749
In ye 66 Year of his Age.
103. ELIZABETH FRANKLIN
Daughter of THOMAS FRANKLIN
& said ELIZABETH [FRANKLIN]
Aged . . .
. . departed . XXXI . .
i6[98]
104. Repo ELLS
RI[CARD] ORUM
GVLIELFM] i6qc
RICARD
'[695]
58
CHELSEA
105. ELIZABETH LEAVER
ob D[ec'] [6] 1762
an [Jit] 71
1 06. Here l[ieth] the Body of
MRS FR[ANSES] A[RABELLA] K[ELRY]
who Departed] this life the [zd] d[ay]
Of Novmb ... in the . . [year] of
107. THE BODYES OF T[WO]
INFANTS ONE OF THE LD
ROBERTS BARON OF TRVRO
THE OTHER OF HIS SONS
ROBERT ROBERTS
LYE HERE INTERRED
1 08 MR JOHN HUTCHINS
Son of JOHN and ELIZh
HUTCHINS of this
Parifh. Died Dec i8th
1765. Aged 45 Years
109. MR NATHANIEL FIRMIN
Died 13 February 1753
Aged 63
MR NATHANIEL FIRMIN
his Son died 28 October
1767 Aged 24 Years
MRS .... FIRMIN Died
Novr . . Aged 6 1
Nave (south part).
no. In Memory of
MRS ANNA MARIA DOW D ALL
Died 22d Septemr 1795
Aged 71 Years
59
CHELSEA
in. In Memory
of MRS MARTHA DENVER
Died Jan" i8th 1795
In the 64 Year of Her Age
(and others after 1800)
112. In Memory of
Mih JANE DORRELL MORRELL
Who died Dec 26th 1798
Aged 1 6 Years
Alfo MRS FRANCES MORRELL
Died JUNE ioth 1802
(and others after 1800)
113. Here lies the Body of
MK FRANCIS THOMAS Director of y'
CHINA PORCELAIN Manufactory of
Lawrence Street CHELSEA Departed
this Life Between the Hours of Ten and
Eleven O'Clock Sunday night ye 6th Jany
1770 in the 45th year of his Age
Surely The Tendereft Husband
The Beft of Fathers And y° Sincereft Friend
Whofe Death is Greatly Lamented
By us And by all his Friends
Oh But when The Great God does call
And summons us Both Great and small
Therefore Let us My Friends Prepare
Like this the Best of Fathers here
1 4- HERE LYETH THE BODY
OF MRS/ARAH WADE y*
WIFE OF BRYAN W[ADE OF]
THIS PARISH GENT
WHO DIED ye 7 OF AUG
1710
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CHELSEA
In the Tower.
115.
Here lyeth ye body of
SUSANNAH CALDWELL
Wife of IOHN CALDWELL who
Departed this life ye 24th day of febry
In y" [51] year of her Age and in ye year
Anno Domini
116.
117.
Alffo ye body of] IOHN CALDWELL
H[usband of ye] Above said who Dyed
J[an ye ] in y'' 35th Year of his Age
Anno Dom 1721
In Memory of
MR EDWARD ANDERSON
Who died Auguft the 25th 171 [9]
Aged 76 Years
Alfo
MR EDWARD ANDERSON hi[s son].
Who died June the 17 .....
Aged 85 Years
Who was Many Years Mas[ter of]
CHELSEA HOSPI[TAL]
and Alfo to his Majesty . . .
at Hampton Court
Richmond and Kew
[HERE LYEJTH Y" BODY
.... STEVENS OF
[YE PA]RISH OF SNT
.... WESTMT
[WHO] DEPARTED THIS
[LIFE] . . . 27TH 1723
....... YEAR
OF HIS AGE
Here also lies the Body of
MR CORNELIUS ROSE of the
same Parish he died May the 22
1731 in the 58 Year of his Age
Here also lyeth the Body of
MRS MARGARET ROSE wife to the
above and who Departed this Life
the .... Day of February 1732 in
the [3]! Year of her Age
61
CHELSEA
CHELSEA • OLD • CHURCH •
IV. MONUMENTS IN THE CHURCHYARD
The following inscriptions include all the stones which can with any
certainty be ascribed to the period covered by the London survey (i.e. up
to and including the year 1800). Wherever the lettering is now illegible
the inscriptions have been completed from Robert Chambers' MS. in the
Chelsea Public Library. All restorations are shown by square brackets
unless the whole inscription is marked as illegible.
1 1 8. On the stone covering the grave is the following on plates of iron
fixed into it :
PHILIP MILLER
OB DEC 18. 1771 JE 80
CHARLES MILLER
ONLY Sox OF THE ABOVE
PHILIP MILLER
DIED 6TH OCT*. 1817
AGED 78
62
CHELSEA
119. In the N. wall of the Churchyard is fixed a large monument with
the following inscription much defaced by the weather. The monument
is similar to that of Woodcock (No. 123) but without a pediment. Crest: a
goat's head on a crown surmounts the inscription panel and a coat of arms
is carved below.
Near this place under a stone with his name on it
lyes y body of JOHN PENNANT Gent 2 son of DAVID
PENNANT of Bighton in ye County of Flint Esq™
who departed this life ye 5 day of lune 1709 Aged 69
In whose memory this monument was erected by
his mournfull widow who designes to be
interr'd [in the same] gr[ave]
Had virtue in perfection pow'r to f ave
The best of men from the Devouring Grave
Pennant had liv'd but 'tis in vain to flie
The fatal stroke where all are doom'd to die
Farewell lov'd Spouf e since want of Words appears
T'exprefs my grief i'll moan thy lofs in tears
Which like Nile's Cataracts f hall tumble down
And with their briny Streams my Paf sions drown
Here may thy Afhes undif turb'd remain
Till thy wive's duf t reuifits thee again
Then sacred quiet to the day of doom
Seal the inclofure of our catacomb
Arms : Three bars wavy, (this coat, with three martlets on the
centre bar, was an ancient quartering of Pennants) impaling a cross flory
between 4 martlets.
Note. — Partly illegible.
1 20. On a flat stone beneath the monument cut in large letters.
IOHN PENNANT GEN*. '
1709
Here lyeth the body of
S[ARAH PENNANT]
with her husband Mr JOHN
PENNANT who departed this
life the 29th day of Novr
1713
Aged 71 years
Note. — Nearly illegible at present.
63
CHELSEA
121. On a flat stone : partly illegible.
Here lyeth
Intr'd ye Body of
[Francis] BRAREWOOD
who departed this life y*
25th of September Aged
10 Months 5 Days
Anno Domini
1723
Also yc Body of DIANA
BRAREWOOD who Died
Feb yc 24th 1724-5 Aged
3 Months
At the other end of the stone is an inscription to Peter Thomas,
waterman, dated 1809.
122. On a table monument, once surrounded with iron rails : almost illegible.
Here lyes the Body of
ROBT BUTLER Esq«
late of this Parish
who Died Decr 12, 1712
• Aged 6 1
Here also lyes the Body of
MRS MARTHA BUTLER
His wife who Died
the 5th of May 1739
Aged 85
123. On a large monument towards the east end of the recessed portion of
the north wall of the churchyard is the following :
Near this place under a f tone with his
name on it lye's interr'd the body of
ROBERT WOODCOCK Gen': who
was born at Upton near Glocefter on
"the 3<Dth of September 1642
and departed this life at Cheljey
the 4th of April 1710
124. On a flat stone :
Sacred to the Memory of
JOHN CHRISTIAN NEWMAN Gent
who died December 6th 1766 Aged 57 Years
Alfo WILLIAM MCCANNON
grandfon to the Above Aged 5 Months
Alfo MRS. ANN NEWMAN
who died November 25th 1796 Aged 72 Years
Another inscription to Patterson added to the above in 1820.
64
CHELSEA
125. On a flat stone :
126.
MR RICHARD DOODY
Died December 12, 1745
Aged 44 Years
MK JOHN [GLASS]
Died November IIth 1763
Aged 41 years
MRS MARY TOOLE[Y]
Died January 6th 1777
aged 56 years
Here refts
MRS MAR .
[w]ho died i6th Sepr
In the . . Year of her Age
[E]LIZ[ABET]H ODDAM
, . . of the above who departed
. . . Aged . . .
127. On a flat stone :
[Miss] ESTHER NEWSHAM
[died Novr 1756 Aged 6 years]
[Hannah Richards]
[died 1 6th 1758 Aged 4 years]
Also
[Mr] Richard [Newsham]
[of this parish]
[died March 17, 1760 Aged 42]
Also
[Mrs Richard Newsham]
[of this parish]
[died Dec1 i8th 1779 Aged 65 years]
CHELSEA
I2S. On a table monument of stone. On the south side. The whole
now almost illegible.
UNDER THIS MONUMENT
IV A VAULT ERECTED BY HER FATHER
I.I IS THE BODY OF MKS SARAH EYRE LATE THE
WIFE OF M"
FRANCIS EYRE AND ONLY CHILD OF M« INNES OF THIS TOWN
SHE WAS A WOMAN EMINENT IN THE PRACTICE OF ALL MORAL
VERTUES AND OK A SWEET AND COURTEOUS DISPOSITION WHICH
HUNG HEIGHTENED BY A REFIN'o TASTE AND IMPROv'o BY
I MVERSAL READING RENDER'D HER AMIABLE TO EVERYONE WHO KNEW HER
THE DIFFIDENCE SHE HAD OF HER OWN MERITS PLAc'o HER
AMONGST THE MOST MODEST OF HER SEX AND HER PHILOSOPHIC
TURN <»>F MIND MADE THE TRANSITION FROM LIFE TO DEATH
VERY INCONSIDERABLE TO HER SO THAT HAVING Liv'o WITHOUT GUILE
SHE DIED WITHOUT DOUBTS BELOVED AND LAMENTED THE IO OF
APRIL 1756 IN THE $2 YEAR OF HER AGE
And several lines entirely illegible.
129. On a flat stone :
In Memory of
Mks ELIZABETH MASON
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 19™ OF JUNE 1799
AGED 50 YEARS
/ WAIT FOR THE LORD MY SOUL
DOTH WAIT AND IN HIS WORD
DO I HOPE PSALM 130 VERSE 5
130. On a flat stone :
Here lyeth the Body of
M« MARY LOWE
Wife of M« HUMPHREY .LowE
of this Parif h who Departed
this Life July the 30"' 1750
Aged 57 Years
Also the Body of
MK HUMPHREY LOWE
Husband of the said MARY LOWE
who Departed this Life the
Twenty first day of April 1751
Aged fifty three Years
66
CHELSEA
131. On a flat stone :
In Memory of
MR JOHN STICKNEY Carpen'
Late of this Parifh
Departed this Life
May the i6Ul 1756
in the 55th Year of his Age
Alfo HANNAH his Widow
Died ye 3d Day of February
1763 Aged 73 Years
132. On a headstone :
IN MEMORY
OF
MRS JANE OWEN
THE BELOVED WIFE OF
MR WILLIAM OWEN
WHO DIED MAY I3TH 1774
AGED 60 YEARS
ALSO THE ABOVE NAMED
MR WILLIAM OWEN
OF THIS PARISH
DIED FEBRUARY 25. 1776
AGED 82 YEARS
And later inscriptions.
133. On a headstone :
To the Memory of
Mr James Tulloh
of Turnham Green
Who departed this Life
Novr the 6th 1 796
(Aged 63 Years)
Not wearied out through length of days
Nor lingering Pains nor dire disease
But in the House of God at Prayer
He unto Death fell a Victim there
A victim for who could withstand
His fatal Dart and Stern command
Hence Reader learne prepar'd to be
Least unawares Death seize on thee
This stone was erected by his disconsolate widow.
Note. — Inscription now entirely illegible.
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On a flat stone at the back of the last :
In Memory of
MKS ANN TULLOH
who died June 13'" 1782
Aged 49 years
Alfo the Body of
MKS ELIZ™ TIBETTS
who departed this life ye 22nd Nov
Aged 67 Years
Alfo the Body of
MK JAMES TULLOH of Turnham
Green who departed this Life on
the fixth day of November
[In Chcswick Church]
[During Divine Service]
in the [year of our] Lord /7<?6
[Aged 63 Years]
134. On a flat stone :
Here lyeth Interred ye Body of
WILLIAM FRANCIS who departed this
Life ye i8th day of February in ye 8oth Yeare
Of his Age Anno Dom:
I7[25] ?6
Nere this place also lyes Interred two Wifes
Of yc sayed WILLIAM FRANCIS
Viz Honour who dyed ye 15th of May
1695 Aged 50 Years
Also Elizabeth who dyed
September 1719 Aged 54 Y[ears]
1 35. On a flat stone raised on a stone curb, to the memory of Charles Lafield
ALSO OF
ELIZABETH HIS WIFE
WHO DIED 24th SEPTEMBER 1795
AGED 38 YEARS
136. On a flat stone :
Here lieth the Body of
MR SAMUEL DUFFIELD
late of this PARISH
Died 2 Ist of April 1772
Aged 52 years
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137. On a flat stone .
Here Lyeth Interr'd the Body
of MKS BARBARA MORRIS Late
Wife of MK BENJAMIN MORRIS
who departed this life ye 2" of
February \~J2\ Aged 27 Years
138. On a flat stone :
Here lyeth the Body of
MR WILLIAM SWINDELL
late of Knightsbridge Brewer
who departed this life 1 8th of May 1742
Aged 44 Years
Alfo the Body of
MRS ANN SWINDELL
Wife of the abovesaid who dyed
December 3oth 1742 in the 52nd Year
of her Age
139. On a flat stone :
In Memory of
SAMUEL DUFFIELD fon of
THOMAS and ANN DUFFIELD
of ST George's Bloomsbury
who departed this life
June 24th 1765
Aged 5 years and 1 1 months
Alfo
to the Memory of
The above MRH ANNE DUFFIELD
who departed this life
May 14th 1798
Aged 82 Years
Alfo
to the Memory of
The above MK THOS DUFFIELD
who departed this life
March 5th 1800
Aged 75 Years
140. On a flat stone :
[Sacrejd to the Memory of
AIR JOHN GASKELL
who died Dec 3d 1778
Aged 29
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i_p. On a flat stone :
Here Lyeth the Body of Mr
IOHN HERGEST of
ST Martins in the Fields who
Departed this Life the tenth
Day of June Anno Domini
1721 in the fortie fifth
year of his age.
142. On a table monument surrounded with iron rails :
Sacred to the Memory of SAMUEL RUSH
The only Son of SAMUEL and HENRIETTA
MARIA 'RUSH of BROMPTON in the
COUNTT of MI DDK who after a
Painful struggle for many years with ill
Health departed this Life 9th April 1799
in the 15th Year of his Age
The pious and manly virtues of his mind
the softer graces of innocence and youth
and the truly excellent disposition of a heart
improved into the highest sense of filial duty
and affection ; and which by natyre seemed
to be born for all that was good and amiable
have made his loss to his fond and afflicted
parents, who were long the partners of his pains
and sufferings, irreparable and who with
his relatives and friends for ever will lament him
In resignation in grief and affliction his sorrowing
parents now pay this tribute to his honoured
memory as the last sad proof of their
piety and parental love
Also to Samuel Rush 1820.
143. On a flat stone defaced three parts down :
MR [SAMUEL GIL]BERT
Di[ed March n 1780
Aged . . . Years]
Alfo IANE JENNINGS
Wife of the above SAM. GILBIRT
Died Nov 26 1793 Aged 59
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144. On a flat stone, partly defaced, against the wall :
[Here lyeth] the Body of
[.\!ARY CADE Daugjhter of
[MR LUKE and ELIZABETH] CADE
[of this Parish Died March 2 Ist] 1784
[in the 23d year of her] Age
[also MRS ELIZABETH] CADE
[Wife of MR LUKE CADE]
[She died June 22d. 1800]
[Aged 80 years]
And others after 1800.
145. On a flat stone now against the wall beside that of Cade and to the
east of the Rush table monument.
3n flBemori? of
MR STEPHEN WHEELER JACOB
CITIZEN and FINTNF.R of LONDON
late of this Parifh
Died October 28th 1784
Aged 37 years
Also Mrs. Mary Jacob, 1821.
146. On a flat stone : Here lyeth ye Body of
Mr lohn hodge of Sl
Clements danes Who
Departed this life ye 2d of
April ann Dom, I7o[3]
In ye 58 year of his age
Also underneath this stone Lyeth the
Body of MR IOHN ODER of [this Parish]
who Departed this Life the 29[th of MayJ
1732 in the 57th Year of his [Age]
147. On a flat stone : Here lies the Body-
of MRS ANN BUNCE
Wife of MR THOMAS BUNCE
of this Parish who departed
this life March 13"' 1793
Aged 30 years
. RACHEL BUNCE Wife of
THOMAS BUNCE who died at
[Marylebon] June . . . 1801
[35 7ears]
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14*. A headstone, mostly illegible, now thrown down on its face.
149. A flat stone partly illegible. Thos: Jones, and Mrs. Anne Jones.
150. On a flat stone :
In [Memory of]
MRS MARY PAGE [Widow of the]
late CAPTAIN PAGE ... in His
[MAJESJTYS R[egi]ment of
Dragoon G[uards w]ho died
[March 26th] 1781 in the 62d Year
of her Age
151. Qn a flat stone :
In Memory of
MKS SARAH HOWELL
who died November 2nd 1798
Aged 45 Years
And others later than 1800.
152. On a flat stone :
[B]ODY of
[JOSEPH COO]KSON
of this PARISH
who dep[arte]d this life
Aged 54 Years
Alfo of MARY COOKSON
Wife of the above Died
May the 4'" 1773 Aged 66
MR GEORGE COOKSON
Ormond Houfe Paradife Row
July 29'" 1791 Aged Sixty one
• -. to the above Joseph Cook/on
153. On a flat stone :
In Memory of
MR ROBERT TATE of this Parish
Died the 6th of Janry 1780
Aged 47 years
Also
MR SAMUEL SUTTON who was
Born in the Parish of Penshurst in
Kent March 24 17-6
Died in this Parish March i8' 1706
Remainder illegible.
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154. On a flat stone with a coat of Arms defaced :
[Here lies Interred
Mr Alexander Reid & Frances his Wife
He died November 3d 1735 Aged 40
She died May 12, 1743 Aged 60
Likewise
Six of their Children
Mr. George Reid died July 25th 1745 Aged . . .
Mr John Reid died May 5th 1755 Aged 33]
EMANUEL and IAMES
HENRIETTA and ITHAMAR
Died Infants
Alfo
MR THOMAS REID
who Died Novr 19 1778 in his 5oth year
155. Against the north wall of the Church is an oblong tablet with
sarcophagus-shaped wings on which are inscribed a skull and crossbones sur-
mounted by an hour-glass.
Here lyeth the Body o/MRS JOANNA RHODES
the wife of CHRISTOPHER RHODES Esqre and
Daughter o/SiR OLIVER BOTELLER Bart of Teston
in Kent She died May y6 . . 1757 aged 74
Reader
The Hour approaches
and Thou Heedest it not
the Fatal Moment steals on apace
and Thou regardest it not
Yet a little while and Thou also
Shall descend to the Mansion of . . .
And mingle with the . . .
Wouldst thou he happy
Be Virtuous
and
Follow
156. On a flat stone :
In Memory of
MRS MARGARET Wife of
MR THOMAS ROWLEY
CARPENTER of this PARISH
Died January ye 3Otb 1781
Aged 48 Years
[To this Sad Stone Whoere thou art draw near
Here lies the friend Most lov'd the Wife most dear
Who neer knew Joy but friendship might divide
Or gave her husband Grief but when she died!
73
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157. A flat stone, illegible- except a date 1771 and a name Parkins of a date-
about 1810, folloued by other inscriptions.
i ;S. On a flat stone :
In Memory of
MK JOHN GYLES
late of this PARISH
BARGE BUILDER
Died JANUARY 17th 1783
Aged 69 Years
Also of MRS REBECCA GYLES
Wife of the above died February
[the] ioth] 1793 Aged 72 [YJears
And others after 1800.
1 59. On a flat stone :
Here Lieth the Body of MR JOHN MANN
of this Parish who Died December y° roth
1728 Aged 65 years
Alfo the Body of HENRY MANN SON
Who Died May y6 31, 1743 Aged 44 Years
Alfo [8] More of their Children '
who Died in their Infancy
Alfo the Body of Mks SARAH MANN
Wife of the Abovesaid JOHN MANN
who Died April y« 24th 1755
Aged [84] Years
Alfo 6 of their Grand Children
who Died in their Infancy
Alfo here lyeth the Body of
ELIZABETH MARY Daughter of
the Abovesaid JOHN and SARAH MANN
who died August y6 13, 1759 Aged 25 Years
Alfo lieth the Body of JOHN MANN
Grandson of the above JOHN MANN
Died May 19, 1763 Aged 5 years
Alfo Here lieth the Body of
M'; JOHN MANN son of the Above
JOHN and SARAH MANN who died
April the 7th 1774
Aged 62 Years
Alfo the Body of MRS SARAH MANN
Widow of the above died 25' Octr 1801
Aged 59 years
1 60. A table monument, not decipherable. Part of the name appears on
the North side : Capt: Samuel S . . . .
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CHELSEA
161. On a table monument of stone :
In this [P ' auli\ lie the Bodies of
MR ANTHONY BROMWICH
of the PARISH of ST CLEMENTS DANES
[who died Sepr 15th 1692 Aged 84 years]
And ANN Wife of
MR GEORGE BROMWICH
who died Decemr 15th 1694 Aged 52 years
Also MR GEORGE BROMWICH
[Clerk of the Check to the Messengers
eldest son of]
MR ANTHONY- BROMWICH
who died March [i5th 1691 Aged 51 years]
Alfo MR ANTHONY BROMWICH [Junior]
Apothecary [and CITIZEN OF LONDON
who died Decemr i8th 1697 Aged 52 years
Alfo MK Tho Bromwich
of this Parish son of]
MR [Anthony Bromwich Senior]
who died [August 5th 1710 Aged 63 years]
A[nd Elizabeth] W[ife of]
MR THOMAS [BROMWICH]
Daughter of MR [Sam' Smith]
[of this PARISH]
who died April [i5th 1714 Aged 47 years]
On the South Side (all illegible) :
In this vault lie the Bodies of
Mr Robert Abbott
of this Parish
who died October Ist 1727
Aged 77 years
Mrs Ann Abbott
and Daughter of
Mr Tho: and Elizabeth Bromwh
died Novr 7th 1720
Aged 59 years
Also two Reids after 1813.
On the North Side (all illegible) :
In the Vault lie the Bodies of
Mr Thomas Abbott
of this Parish
who died February 5, 1773
Aged 64 years
And Mra Jane Abbott
wife of Mr Thomas Abbott
who died April 26th 1 765
Aged 56 years 75
CHELSEA
162. On a headstone : partly illegible :
/ \ MKMORT OF
MRS ELIZABETH GROVE
WHO DIED AUGUST THE Ist 179!
AGED 29 YEARS . . •
ELIZA DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE
DIED AUGUST 8"' 179! AGED 3 WEEKS
Remainder after 1800
163. On a flat stone :
EGERTON EVANS son of
RICHARD EVANS Esqr and
his wife DIANA (of the
Paryh of Chelsea) born
the 25th day of January
1714 and departed this
life the [i 5th of Mar 17}*
Aged seven weeks
Richard Evans
second son Died on
the 27 of August
1717 aged 12 day8]
164. On a headstone against the wall :
In Memory of
MRS MARY RATTRAY
who died August the 14th I78[6]
Aged 38 Years
Also David Rattray after 1800
165. Munden (illegible).
1 66. A large monument in Portland stone to Sir Hans Sloane, Bt., standing
in the S.E. corner of the churchyard. This consists of a pedestal with
moulded cornice and plinth having enriched inscription panels on the north
and south faces and carved on the east and west with heraldic emblems.
On the pedestal is a large funeral urn carved with serpents beneath a canopy
supported by four semicircular arches springing from four square angle
columns. The spandrils above the arches are carved, and round the whole
there runs an unbroken entablature of Doric detail. The monument is
finished above with a flat pyramidal stone.
On the East side are the following arms : Gules, a sword in pale, point
down, argent, hilt and pommel or between two boars' heads cut off at the
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neck, or, on a chief ermine a lion passant gules between two mascles sable.
On an escutcheon of pretence quarterly, I & 4, argent a cockatrice sable
(Langley), 2 & 3, argent, on a bend vert three wolves' heads erased argent
(Middleton).
The inscriptions are :
On the north face :
Here lies interred
ELIZABETH Lady SLOANE
wife of Sir Hans Sloane Bar1
who departed this life
in the year of our Lord 1724
and the 67 of her age
On the south face :
To the memory of
SIR HANS- SLOANE BART
President of the Royal Society,
and of the College of Physicians,
who in the year of our Lord 1753,
the 92d of his age
without the least pain of body
and with a conscious serenity of mind,
ended a virtuous and beneficent life.
This monument was erected
by his two daughters
ELIZA CADOGAN and SARAH STANLEY
167. On a flat stone :
Under this stone lies the Body [of]
Mks MARTHA BATES Wife of
MR JOSEPH BATES of this Parifh
Died 9th November 1757
and their son MR THOMAS BATES
Died November the 21 1791
Aged 56 Years
And others after 1 800.
168. A headstone against the East Wall of the Chancel :
SUSANNA
late Wife of
MR JEHU HOWELL
of this Parifh
Died October 23 1776
Aged 6 1 Years
Alfo MR JEHU HOWELL
Huf band of the above
Died Octr 5th 1787
Aged 8 1 Years
77
Sloane.
( III LSEA
169. A portion of a stone adjoining the latter to the south, name illegible.
170.* A long, narrow stone to the south of the above :
[Here also] lyeth the Body of ROBERT CHURCHIL
Son of ANDREW and MARGARET CHURCHIL Who
I )cparted this life the [l9tb day of ... 1738]
Jn the 2[9th] Year of his Age
171.* A similar but smaller stone to the South of the above :
ALSO THE BODY OF
MR ANDREW CHURCHIL
AND MARGARET HIS
WIFE HE DIED AUGUST
THE 5TH 1734 AGED 62
YEARS SHE DIED FEB
THE JD 1732 AGED 59
YEARS
172. A flat stone broken in several pieces :
Underneath this stone
is Interr'd the Body of
MRS MARY BERWICK
Wife of
MR B
On an adjoining fragment :
.... year of her ....
.... above named
.... BERWICK
.... Jan" 13th 1778
.... 80 Years
On a very small fragment :
[BER]WIC[K]
173. On a flat stone : TO THE MEMORY
OF
Mk JOHN PRICE
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 30th DAY OF JUNE 1785
AGED 75 YEARS
/.'/. II'. IS /.V AFFECTIONATE HUSBAND
AN INDULGENT FATHl-K,
AND A TRULY HONEST WORTHY WIN
* Thfif two inscriptions are stated by Robt. Chambers in bis MS. in the Chelsea Library to
have been cm the south side of a table monument to Samuel Forrest, who died in 1692
78
CHELSEA
ALSO
TO THE MEMORY
OF
MKS MARGARET PRICE
RELICT OF THE ABOVE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 15™ DAY OF SEPTEMBER IJC)l
AGED 76 YEARS
WHO WAS A SINCERE CHRISTIAN
AN EXEMPLARY WIFE
.1X1) A MOST TEXDER MOTHER
174. On a flat stone :
In the adjoining Grave
are depofited the Remains of
MR JOHN COLLINS
late of this Parif h
who died 17th Auguft 1761
Aged 46 Years
Alfo the Remains of
MRS ELIZABETH COLLINS
Relict of the above
MR JOHN COLLINS
who died 24th October 1787
Aged 74 Years
Likewife in the adjoining Grave
are depofited the Remains of
MR JOHN COLLINS
son of the above
JOHN AND ELIZABETH COLLINS
who died 13th October 1789
Aged 42 Years
Alfo in the adjoining Grave
I are depofited the Remains of
MRS SARAH COLLINS
Relict of the above
MK JOHN COLLINS
who died \j^ January 1798
Aged 52 years
And two more after 1800.
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Chamberlaine.
i-;. On a large stone tablet with a shaped head against the S.W. corner
of the nave, with two small brackets under :
1703
POSTERITATI
SACRUM
MORE MA!ORUM
EXTRA URBIS POMCERI^E
luXTA VlAM PUBLICAM
IN TUMULO EDITIORE
HEIC PROPE INHUMARI VOLUIT
EDVARDUS CHAMBERLAYNE
ANGLUS CHRISTICOLA LEGUM DOCTOR
Ex ANTIQUA COMITIS TANQUERVILLAE
PROSAPIA NORMANNICA ORIUNDUS
ODDINGTONIJE NATUS 1616
GLOCESTRI^: GRAMMATICA
OxONlI JURISPRUDENTIA
LONDINI HUMANITATE
IMBUTUS FUIT
PER GALLIAM, HISPANIAM, ITALIAM, HUNGARIAM
BOHEMIAN, UTRAMQUE GERMANIAM, DANIAM
ET SUECIAM
MIGRAVIT
SUSAN NAM CLIFFORD EX EQUESTRI FAMILIA PROGNATA
IN MATRIMONIUM DUXIT 1658
NOVEM LlBEROS GENUIT SEX LlBROS COMPOSUIT
TANDEM 1703 IN TERRAM OBLIVIONIS
SEMIGRAVIT
BENEKACIENDI UNIVERSIS ETIAM ET POSTERIS
A DEO STUDIOSUS FUIT, ur SECUM CONDI
Q]USSERIT LlBROS ALIQUOT SUOS CERA OBVOLUTOS
SERAE FORSAN POSTERITATI ALIQUANDO PROFUTUROS
ABI VIATOR, FACSIMILE
DEUS TE SERVET INCOLUMEM
HOC MoNUMENTUM
NON IMPUNE TEMERANDUM
IN AMORIS JUXTA AC MCERORIS TESTIMONIUM
PON i CURAVIT
GUAL. HARRIS
M.D.
AMICUS. AMICO
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CHELSEA
On the lower portion of the last tablet is the following :
Whereas the Abovementioned Edward Chamberlayne
Did Intend by deed or Will to Settle A certain
Annual sum upon this Parish for Charitable
Ufes his Son John in duty to his will & refpect
to his memory has given Ten Pounds per Ann
for Ever to pay for the instruction of five Poor
Children Natives of this parifh in
the adjoyning Charity School
and apprenticing one of ye
Said Children yearly
1 76. On a small pedimented tablet on the west side of the south door
POSTERITATE SACRUM
HlC IUXTA SITUS EST PEREGRINUS CLIFFORD
CHAMBERLAYNE Dux MARINUS FILIUS NATU
MAXIMUS EDVARDI CHAMBERLAYNE
LEGUM DOCTORIS
NATUS.FUIT HAGAE COMITIS 20° JAN. 1660
Qui TUM LINGUIS SCIENTIIS LIBERALIBUS
STUDIO LEGUM MUNICIPALIUM ARTIBUS
PlNGENDI, PSALLENDI, DIGLADIANDI, MODULANDI
TERRA ET REGIONES DlMETIENDI
SED PR^ OMNIBUS OPERAM NAVIGANDI DEDISSET
QUATTUOR MUNDI PLAGAS LUSTRASSET, REGI
PATRI^ FIDELITER AC STRENUE CONTRA GALLOS
ET IN DOS MERUISSET. HEU PRAEMATURE IN
TERRAS OBLIVIONIS SEMIGRAVIT
6. NOVEM. 1691.
HOC MONUMENTUM NON IMPUNE TEMERANDUM
PONI CURAVIT MO2RENS PATER
Upon a strip of marble over the south door is the following
inscription :
177. Hie JUXTA IN CONDITORIO DEpoNiTUR EDVARDUS CHAMBERLAYNE
FILIUS NATU | MINIMUS EDV. CHAM. L.L.DRIS QUI IN SCHOLA WESTMON
POSTEA IN ACADEM OxON DEINDE IN COL. T'EMPLI INTF.RIORIS LoND : EDUCATUS,
TANDEM PRO REGE ET PATRIA CONTRA GALLOS PER MARE MERERI MALUIT, UBI
PER SEPTF.NNIUM VITAM AGENS MARINAM TUM DEMUM | FATALE PLEURITIDE
INTRA QUATRIDUUM ABREPTUS FUIT OPTIMA SPEI IUVENIS NATUS NONO |
KAL. OCTOB. MDCLXIX DENATUS PRIDIE IDUS MAII : MDCXCVIII
Hoc MONUMENTUM PONI CURAVIT PATER MOERENS
F 8 I
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( )n a -mull tabK-t with a pediment over and two small brackets under
the tablet, on the ea>t side of the south door :
178. ^ P. S.
UlC JUXTA IN CoNDlTORIO IACET ANNA
I.mvARDi CHAMBERLAYNE LL.D. FILIA UNICA
LONDINI NATA xx° IANUARII 1667
Qu^ DIU SPRETO CONNUBIO MACNAQUE
SUPRA SEXUM ET CETATEM MOLIENS
XXX" luNII. 1690
CONTRA FRANCIGENAS ARMIS, HABITUQUE VIRILI.
IN RATE FLAMMIFERA SEX HORAS SUB DUCE FRATRE
PUCNAVIT DUM VIRGO FUIT DUM CASTA VIRAGO
HEROUM POTERAT STIRPEM GENERARE MARINAM
Nl PRAEMATURIS FATIS ABREPTA FUISSET
REDUX AB ISTA NAVALI PUGNA AC POST ALIQUQT
MENSES NUPTA JoANNI SPRAGG ARMIGERO "
QUOCUM VIXIT AMANTISSIME SESQUIANNUM TANDEM
l.MXA FILIAM POST PAUCOS DIES OBIIT
XXXC OCTOBRIS 1691
HOC MONUMENTUM UXORI CHARISSIMAE NEC NON
PUDICISSIMvE PONI CURAVIT MARITUS
MOESTISSIMUS
179. On another larger stone tablet near the S.E. corner, resembling
No. 175 :
NEAR THIS PLACE
IN A VAULT BELONGING TO
THE FAMILY LIES INTERRED
THE BODY OF SUSANNA
CHAMBERLAYNE LATE WIDOW
OF DR EDWARD CHAMBERLAYNE
AND ONLY DAUGHTER OF RlCHARD
CLIFFORD ESQ DESCENDED FROM
THE ANCIENT AND NOBLE FAMILY
OF THE CLIFFORDS LORDS OF
FRAMPTON IN THE COUNTY OF
GLOCESTER AGED SIXTY NINE YEARS AND
3 MONTHS SHE DYED THE 17 OF
DECEMBER IN THE YEAR 01 OUR LORD
1703
1 80. Illegible.
1 8 1.- Illegible.
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182. A table monument of stone just to the east of No. 145 (the flat
stone to Stephen Wheeler Jacob) almost illegible.
Robt: Chambers gives the following inscriptions :
On the slab at top :
Christopher Cratford
Gentleman
of the Parish of
Sl Giles in the Fields
buried here by
his own order
He dyed November the 8th
1782 Aged 82
On the south side :
Here lies ye Body of
Clayton Milborne Esqre
of ye Parish of Sl Giles in ye Fields
He died Sept 12 1726 TEt: 47
Haueing Purchased y6 ground
Whereon this Tomb is erected
Of this Parish for a Buryal
Place for y6 above named
Christopher Cratford his
I ricle, Himself & Family
Anno 1702
Also the Body of
Clayton Milborne Esq
Eldest son of the aforesaid
Clayton Milborne
who died the IIth of June 1744
in the 28th year of his Age
Here Lieth the Body
Christopher Milborne Esqre
he departed this Life the 19th
of August 1802 Aged 87
At the east end
Here lies also intered
the Body of
Ann Milborne
the Wife of
Christ1 Milborne Esqre
who departed this Life
the 2nd of August 1707
Aged 60 Years
APPENDIX
•LIST OF KI-XTOKS, AND INCUMBENTS OF THE OLD CHURCH
Rectors :
Reginald de S» Albans . . 1289-90101299
Sir Robert de Starandone
Roller de Berncrs . . .. . . 1316
William dc Bray .. .. 1316101318-19
Nicholas Hosbounde .. 1318-19101348
Martin de Moulish .. 1348
William Palmer .. 1368
Thomas de Preston . . . . . . . . 1 368
John Basset .. .. 1368101371
John Wright de Stansted . . 1371 to 1372
[ohn de Foydon (v. Foxdon) 1372 to 1374
Richard Mokynton 1385
Richard Everdon .. .. 13851^1388
John Beaugraunt .. .. .. .. 1388*101392
John Bishop .. .. .. .. .. 1392101394
John Balsham .. .. .. .. .. 1394101394-5
Robert Orum . . . . . . . . . . 1 394-5
John Cambridge .. .. .. ... 1406
Peter HyneuyL .. .. .. .. 1411
John Abbey .. .. .. .. .. 1411
Robert Broun .. .. .. .. .. 1413
Richard Cosyn .. .. .. .. 1413
John Scarburgh . . . . . . . . H33
Geoffrey Medewe . . . . . . . . 1433 to 1435
Alexander Broun .. .. .. .. 1435101442
Thomas Boleyn .. .. .. .. 1442
William Walesby v .. .. .. T45°
William Lilly .. .. .. .. .. 1450101451
Thomas Shalers .. .. .. .. 1451
William Fideon .. .. .. .. 1451101454
John Pennant .. .. .. .. .. 1454101455
"William Hcbbing .. .. .. .. 1455-6101456
William Massanger .. .. .. .. 1456101469-70
William Mille .. .. .. .. .. 1469101481
John Mardelay .. .. .. .. 1481101486
Thomas Machey, A.M. . . . . . . 1486 to 1492
( leorge Percy alias Card . . . . . . 1492
\\illiamlngelard .. .. .. .. 1502
Robert Tunstall .. .. .. .. 1502101503
Thomas Loworth .. .. .. .. 1503
Robert Dandie .. .. .. .. 1530
* For further information sec Hennessey's Repertorium Ecclrsiasticum, and Randall Davics'
CbtUra Old Church.
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John Larke .. .. .. .. .. 1530101543
Robert Richardson .. .. .. .. 1543101554
James Proctor .. .. .. .. .. 1554
Richard Myers .. .. .. .. 1554101558
Matthew Myers .. .. .. .. 1558
Robert Richardson . . . . . . . . Restored
John Churchman .. .. .. .. 1569101574
Thomas Browne, S.T.B. . . . . . . 1574 to 1585
*Richard Ward . . .. .. .. .. 1585101615
George Hambden, A.M. .. .. .. 1615 to 1632
Samuel Wilkinson .. .. .. .. 1632101669
Adam Littleton, D.D. .. .. .. 1669-70101694
John King, D.D. .. .. .. .. 1694101732
Sloane Elsmere .. .. .. .. 1732101766
Reginald Heber . . . . . . . . 1766 to 1770
Thomas Drake, LL.D. . . . . . . 1770 to 1775
W. Bromley Cadogan, M.A. . . . . . . ^775 to T797
Charles Sturgess, M.A. . . . . . . *797 to 1805
Hon. G. V. Wellesley 1805 to 1832
John William Lockwood, M.A. . . . . 1832 to 1836
Charles Kingsley, M.A 1836101860
A. Gerald W. Blunt, M.A 1860 to 1901
Archdeacon H. E. J. Bevan, M.A. . . . . 1902
Incumbents :
John Rush, LL.B. .. .. .. .. 1832101855
Robert Henry Davies, M.A. . . . . 1855 to 1908
Sherburne Povah Tregelles Prideaux, M.A. 1908 to 1912
Malcolm Stuart Farmer, M.A. .. .. 1912 to 1916
Weston Henry Stewart, M.A. .. .. 1916
He left a gift of £15 to the poor of the parish and to repairing the lead.
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INDEX TO NAMES
Page
Abbott, Thomas, also Ann, Jane and
Robert 75
Altham, Edward 43
Anderson, Edward <i\
Anglesey, Charles, Earl of 35
Anglesey, Mary, Countess of, see Gorges.
Arnold, Miles 4
Ashburnham, Hon. William 5
Aubrey, John - 25
Page
Buck, Sir Peter - 42
Buck, James, Francis, Elizabeth, Charles,
John and Richard (children of James) 43
Buckby, Maria 16, 17
Buckby, William 17
Bunce, Ann, also Rachel and Thomas 71
Burleigh, Lord - 2
Burnell, H. H. 8
Butler, Martha and Robert - 64
Banks, Ann 57
Banning, Mary, Viscountess, see
Gorges.
Banning, Paul, Viscount 35
Barker, Susannah 54
Barnard, James - 16, 22
Barnard, Ursula, see Hungerford.
Barnard, Winifred, see Jervoise.
Bateman, Elizabeth - 12
Bates, Joseph, also Martha and Thomas 77
Bath and Wells, George, Bishop of 45
Bayley, Mary Anne 51
Bedford, Paul 40
Beech, John and Sarah 24
Bentley, John, also Maria, Mary and
Michael 34
Bernini, Paolo 43
Berwick, Mary 78
Bolney, George - 50
Bolney, Mary 49, 50
BoteDer, Sir Oliver, Bt. 73
Boteller, Joanna, see Rhodes.
Brarewood, Francis and Diana 64
Bray, Edmund, Lord - - 6, 17, 1 8
Bray, John, 2nd Lord - 1 8
Bray, John 1 8
Bray, Margery, see Lady Sandes.
Bray, Reginald Moore, K.C. 1 8
Bray, Sir Reginald 1 8
Bridge, Anna - - 20
Brigham, Nicholas 36
Bringhurst, Edward 7
Bromwich, Anthony, also George, Thomas,
Ann and Elizabeth 71;
Brown, John - - - - 51
Bruce, William - 49
Bubb, Anne and Thomas 56
Bubb, Elizabeth, see Lindsay.
Buck, James _____ ^2
Buck, Elizabeth - 42, 43
Buck, Mary and Mathew 42
Cade, Elizabeth, Mary and Luke - 71
Cadogan, Eliza - 77
Cadogan, Rev. Hon. William Bromley 9, 85
Caldwell, John and Susannah 61
Caryll, John 22
Castelnaut, Marquis of, see Caumont.
Caumont, Elizabeth de, Marchioness de
Cugnac 23, 24
Caumont, Henry de, Marquis de Castel-
naut - - 24
Caumont, James de, Due de la Force - 24
Caumont, Peter de, Marquis de Cugnac 24
Cecil, Sir Robert - 2
Chaloner, Edmund 43
Chambers, Eliza - 1 5
Chambers, Matilda - - - - 52
Chambers, Robert I, 6, 21, 62, 78, 83
Chamberlayne, Anne - - - - 82
Chamberlayne, Edward - 80, 8 1, 82
Chamberlayne, Edward (the younger) - 8 1
Chamberlayne, Peregrine Clifford - - 8 1
Chamberlayne, Susanna - - - 82
Charlotte, Queen 7
Chaucer, Geoffrey - - - - 36
Cheyne, Charles, Lord, Viscount New-
haven - 19,43,44,45
Cheyne, Lady Jane - - 3, 19, 43, 44, 45
Cheyne, Catherine, Elizabeth and William
(children of Lord Cheyne) - 44
Churchil, Andrew, Robert and Margaret 78
Claremont, Isabel - - - - 52
Clarkson, Abrahall, also Gilbert, John,
Theodosia and William - - - 52
Clifford, Richard 82
Clifford, Susannah 80
Clinton, Henry, Earl of Lincoln - - 2
Coggs, Sarah - - - - - 10
Collins, John, also Elizabeth and Sarah - 79
Collins, Sarah and William - - 52
Colvile, Richard - 30, 31
Colvile, Sara - - - 29, 30, 31
ii
83
56
56
9
57
• :-i;e, also Joseph and
Cooper. Henry -
. R.' - - - - -
Cr.it ford, Christopher-
CMU ford, John - _ _
:v David - -
ount -
pin, Anne and Capt. Daniel] -
i. r.
.larquis de, see Caumont.
CuUiford. Anne, and Capt. Richard -
, Gregory Fiennes, Lord 10, 46, 47, 48
Dacre, Anne, Lady ' 2, 46, 47, 48
Damarr, Thomasin 27, 28
Daniel, Capt. William - 51
Daviet, Rev. R. H. 2,8,85
Davis, Richard - 5
Deacon, William - 1 1
Denver, John - - 15
Denyer, Martha - 15, 60
Derby, William, Earl of, see Stanley.
Dillon, the Hon. Conrad - - - J>
Dodd, Benjamin - - 50
Doody, Richard - - - 65
Dowdall, Anna Maria - - 59
Drake, Capt. Maurice - 9
Drummond, Elizabeth, also George,
George Hay, John and Marianne 41
Dudley, John, Duke of Northumberland
34. 37, 38
Dudley, Ambrose, Earl of Warwick 37, 38
Dudley, Catherine, see Huntingdon,
Countess of.
Dudley, Charles - 37
Dudley, Guildford 37, 38
Dudley, Harry (elder and younger) 37, 38
Dudley, John, Lord Lisle and Earl of
Warwick 37, 38
Dudley, Mary, see Sidney.
Dudley, Margaret, Kat'yn and Tcmperanes 37
Dudley, Robert, Earl of Leicester 37, 38
Durneld. Ann, also Samuel and Thomas 69
Duffield, Samuel - - - - 68
Page
Erasmus ~ 26
Evans, Egerton, also Richard and Diana 76
Eyre, Francis 66
Eyre, Sarah 66
Edward the Confessor - i
l;.d ward VI 16
Edwards, Sydcnham Teast 5 1
Eggleton, David - 1 1
Elderton, John - - - 57
Elers, Carew, also George, Peter, William
and William Shrubb 40
Elizabeth, consort of Henry VII - 18
Hi/.abeth, Queen 16
Ellsmere, Sloane - - 5, 85
88
10
- 25
II
- 8, ii
Farquharson, Maj. Victor
Faulkner, J.
Faulkner, William
Fielder, John
Fiennes, Gregory, see Dacre.
Firmin, Nathaniel and Mrs. - 59
Fletcher (servant to Dr. Hamey) - 10
Flight, B. I., also }. and Thomas • 2
de la Force, Marshal, see Caumont.
Forrest, Samuel - 78
Francis, William, also Honour and Eliza-
beth - 68
Franklin, Elizabeth and Thomas • 58
Frankling, Ester and Thomas 7
Friend, Elizabeth, see Guilford.
Friend, Roger 45
Gaskell,John 69
George, Mr. 55
Gibbon, Gervase 28
Gibbon, Grissel, sec Lawrence.'
Gilbert, Samuel - 70
Gilbert, Jane 70
Glass, John 65
Gorges, Arthur - 35- 36
Gorges, LJame Mary 35
Gorges, Sir Arthur - 2. --,. 34, 3^
Gough, Luke and Thomas • 7
Grandison, Lady Mary, see Gorges.
Grandison, William, Lord 35
Grey, Lady Jane 38
Griffith, John Cory 41)
Grove, Elizabeth 76
Guildford, Sir Edward 37
Guildford, Sir Richard 37
Guildford, Lady Jane, see Northumber-
land, Duchess of.
Guilford, Anne, also Charles, Judeth and
Richard 45
Guilford, Abigail 45
Guilford, Abigal 45
Guilford, Elizabeth 45
Gyles, |ohn and Rebecca 74
Hallett, William - 1 1
Hamey, Baldwin, M.D. - i, 5, 10, 22, 23
Hamey, Baldwin, M.D. (the Elder) 22
Hamilton, Alexander and Jennett - 46
Harris, William - 80
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I larrison, George II
Hart, George and William 39
1 l.iuhett, Charles 9
I le.itly, David 50
Henry VI] 1 8
Henry VIII - 16, 21, 2,
Hergest, John 70
Hewitt, Henry IO, 32
Hewitt, Margaret 32
Hill, Hester and Thomas 53
Hoblyn, Thomas 1 1
Hodge, John 71
Hodsden, Mary Ann 57
Holbein, Hans 3
Holl, Edward 14
Holme, Randle - 6
Horton, Catherine 54
Hoskin, Capt. C. J. \\ . 9
Howard, Edmund 6
I lowcll, Sarah 72
Howell, Jehu and Susanna 77
Hungerford, Robert 16
Hungerford, Thomas - -15,16,22
Hungerford, Ursula - 15,16,22
Huntingdon, Catherine, Countess of 34, 37, 38
Huntingdon, Earl of 38
Hunton, Samuel- 10
Hurd, Thomas and Frederics 14
Hutchins, John and Elizabeth 58, 59
Hutchins, John - 59
Hyde, Maria 19
Innes, Sarah, see Eyre.
Jacob, Stephen Wheeler and Mary 71
James, Henry 39
Janaway, Thomas 5
Jennings, Jane, see Gilbert.
Jervoise, F. H. T. 22
Jervoise, Richard 1 6, 20, 21, 22
Jervoise, Winifred 1 6, 22
Johnson, Israel 1 1
Jones, Ann and Thomas - 72
Jousselin, William 10
Kclry, Franses Arabella
Kingsley, Rev. C.
Lafield, Elizabeth and Charles
Lambe, John Wells
Larchin, Charles
Lawrence, Mrs. Francis
59
- 8, 85
Page
Lawrence, Dame Grissel - 28, 5^. ;d
Lawrence, 1 lenry 55
Lawrence, Sir John 25, 28, 29, 55, 56
Lawrence, Sara, see Colvilt.
Lawrence, Thomas — 2, 29, 30, 31
Leake, Joseph - — 1 1
Leaver, Elizabeth 59
Leet, J. H. '8
Leicester, Robt., Earl of, see Dudley.
Lewer, Henry 2
Lincoln, Earl of, see Clinton.
Lindsay, Elizabeth 56
Lindsay, Thomas 56
Lisle, John, Lord, see Dudley.
Littleton, Adam- I, 19, 45, 85
Long, Catharine and Thomas 19
Lowe, Humphry and Mary - 66
Lowfeild, Ann and Thomas - - 49
Lussan, Henry 54
Luttrell, Sara, Francis and Narcissus 58
McCannon, William - 64
Madox, Oliver - 4
Mahon, Catharine 40
Mann, John, and family 74
Mann, Richard - 2
Marriott, Robert H
Mary, Queen 16
Mason, Elizabeth 66
Massenger, William - 5, 84
Mayerne, Elizabeth, see Caumont.
Mayerne, Sir Theodore 24
Milborne, Ann, also Christopher and
Clayton 83
Miles, William 39
Millard, Richard II
Miller, Charles and Philip 27, 62
Milman, Sir Francis 39
Milman, Sir William - 38, 39
Milman, Lady 39
Milman, J. D., C. D., and Frances 39
Moncrieff, William 52
More, Alicia and Joanna 26
More, Margaret - 27
More, Sir John - 25
More, Sir Thomas - 2, 3, 24, 25, 26, 27, 48
de Morgan, W. F. 31
Morgan, Anne 12
Morrell, Frances and Jane Dorrell 60
Morris, Barbara and Benjamin 69
Munden 76
68
49
10 Needham, Hon. Francis
56 Neild, Reginald John
2
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William Duke "I
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Newtham, Either and Richard - 65
Northumberland, Jane, DncheM "' ^,36,37,38
Northumberland, John, Duke of - 34, 37, 38
Odd.im, Kli/abcth 65
Oder, John 71
Onghton, II. 1 1
!. Jane and William - 67
Mary and Capt. - 72
Palmer, Alice - . 23
Palmer, Ralph - 10, 22, 23
Parkins 74
Patterson, — - - 64
Paulet, William, Marquis of Winchester 2
Pearsall, Rev. John 49
Pennant, David, also John and Sara 03
Perry, J. _ 8, u
Peshall, Humphry 48
Plowman, George 1 1
Powell, Elizabeth and Henry 40, 41
Price, John and Margaret 78, 79
Price, Richard - 1 1
Putland, Thomas 54
Raper, Henry and Katharine - 46
Rattray, David and Mary - 76
Ray, Nicolas - - - 54
Read, Edward and Mary 42
Reid, Alexander, Frances and family 73
Rhodes, Christopher and Joanna - 73
Richards, Edward 8
Richards, Hannah - 65
Roberts, Lord, Baron of Truro 59
Rogers, Elizabeth, see Buck.
Rogers, Humphrey - 42
Koper, Margaret 27
Rose, Cornelius and Margaret 61
Rowley, Margaret and Thomas - - 73
Rush, Catherine and Mary - i^.
Rush, Eloise, George, Henry, Honour,
John and Montagu 1
Rush, the Rev. John - ' 5
Rush, Henrietta and Samuel _ _
85
70
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Sandes, I r-ula, .'/•<• tiungerford.
Sande^ Sir William is
S.nulcs, \\'illi.im. Lord 15, 16, 18, zi, 22
Shalers, Thou - 5, 84
Shoreditch, John 6
Sidney, Sir Henry 3*
Sidney, -Mary, Lady 38
:e'y, Sir Philip 38
Simmons, Edward II
Simplin, Thomas - 1 1
Skinner, Anne 17
Sloane, Sir Hans- 5, 76, 77
Sloane, Lady - 77
Smith, Samuel -. 75
Smith, Bartholomew and Mary 50
Smith, Lucy 14
SP"gg, John ' 82
Squire, Mathew - 49
Stafford, Ann and Hugh 20
Stanley, Edward - 19
Stanley, Ferdinand and Henrietta 32, 33
Stanley, Sir Robert • 32, 33, 34
Stanley, Sarah 77
Stanley, William, Earl of D^-rby - 33
Stathum, Winifred, see Jervoise.
Staunton, Edmund 32
Stevens, — 61
Stewart, Elizabeth 27
Stewart, Thomas 27,28
Stickney, John and Hannah - 67
Sturges, Rev. Charles - 13, 85
Sutton, Samuel - 7z
Sutton, Anna Maria Powel - 53
Sutton, Capt. Dawly - 53
Swindell, Ann and William - -69
Tate, Robert _ 72
Thomas, Francis - 60
Thomas, Peter - 64
Thompson, Elizabeth - 57
Tibbetts, Elizabeth - - 68
Tombleson, Thomas 8
Tooley, Mary 65
Trelawny, Sir Jonathan, Bishop of Win-
chester _ _ 5
Truro, Baron of, see Roberts.
Tu,lloh, Anne and James - 68
Tunstall, Cuthbert, Bishop of London
and Durham - 25
Tyndale, Jane - 27
Verren, Thomas - - - - - 1 1
Sackville, Anne, see Dacre.
Salter, Lady
Sandcs, Margery, Lady
90
29 Wade, Bryan and Sarah
1 6, 1 8 Wakelin, Anne and Thomas
- 60
- 50
Page
Warwick, K.irN of, <,-,- Dudley.
\\'aver, Sir Henry and Cristine 6
Weever, John 1 8, 26
Wellesley, Hon. G. \ . - 15, 85
Wheeler, J. J. _ll
Whitney, Constance 29
Wilson, Richard - 16
Wilton, John 51
Wilton, Joseph and Anne 14
Winchester, Bishops of 13
Winchester, Marquis of, see Paulet.
Wood, Abigail, see Guilford.
Woodcock, Robert -
Woodville, Elizabeth -
Woolley, John - -
Worster, James -
Wybarnd, John - - -
Yates, Robert
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DUCHESS OF NORTHUMBERLAND (45)
PLATE 63
THE DUCHESS OF NORTHUMBERLAND
AND HER DAUGHTERS (BRASS)
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DRAWING IN THE COLLECTION OF SIR
EDWARD COATES, BT.
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TABLET TO SIR WILLIAM MILMAN (46)
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PLATE 69
TABLET TO HENRY &
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IRON RAILING TO THE
CHEYNE MONUMENT (57)
PLATE 73
MONUMENT TO LADY JANE CHEYNE (57)
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HAMILTON TABLET (60)
PLATE 78
PLATE 79
MONUMENT TO LORD AND LADY DACRE (61)
PLATE 80
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DACRE TOMB (61)
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PLATE 82
IRON RAILINGS TO THE
DACRE TOMB (61)
PLATE 83
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DRAWING OF THE DACRE TOMB (61) IN THE
COLLECTION OF SIR EDWARD COATES, BT.
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TABLET TO HESTER HILL (82)
PLATE 86
CHELSEA OLD CHURCH
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PLATE 87
MONUMENTS TO TWO CURATORS
OF THE PHYSIC GARDEN, WILLIAM
ANDERSON (LEFT) AND PHILIP
MILLER (RIGHT)
PLATE 88
MONUMENT TO SIR HANS SLOANE (166)
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